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EROS ALMOST
RUINED
Few who poza Eros dally are aware that it is actually
HIM
of
London's Piccadilly Circus has an empty sort look these days now that its famous Eros statue is miss- ing from its fountain there. Down at a South Lambeth foundry it lies on a pile of sandbags awaiting repairs and renovations. Other workmen labour to make the foun- talna spuri water in the way the sculptor designed, so in due course Eros will preside over the Circus on Ume for the Coronation, and London will be itself once more,
in Buten. This reached Royal and King George per- ar Aunded Gilbert to terminato cxile and return to perform Gilbert nequiesced, Erts was replaced to the satisfaction
lon all prcerned, whilst the na
approved of his memorial to the King's mother. Thus happily
unhappy story, Gilbert
knighted Wag for his services to art and read- mitted to the select circle of the Royal Academy,
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memorial to a famous man whose creation of the work. almost ruined him; that there was after all a happy ending to a most unhappy story.
Eres commemorates the great and good seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, who spent his life agitating against the abuses in the new factory rystem brought about by The Industrial RC- volution a man who left be-
ended
hind him a record of phil Over The Pole
thropy unequalled in Britain's
history.
Our victorian forbears gave unstipted support to the plan to erect a monument to his fame and sacrince. The Jate Sir
Alfred Gilbert, R.A.,
modelled
Service
Britain's
it, and lfs Erus met with liner, the general approval, Then came which
the
wps
כת
storm. Gilbert business-anan.
and had spent Invishly on the fountain. It was pointed out to him that this was not in the contract, and the authoriiles asked him to foot the bill.
of
new prop-jet air- Britannla Bristol
Britain's will ploncer "over the North Pole" service to the Fur East, is being sub- mitted to rigorous trials,
After an intensive flight-test programme the original Britan- na prototype which few at the Farnborough air show last year is now grounded in a hangar of honour, Gilbert at Fillon, Bristol, it is being resigned from the Royal submitted to specially devised Academy and went to live on
The strain on various parts the Continent in self-imposed exile. Shortly after the end of of
MAN OF HONOUR
A. man
tests.
the aircraft has been
the 1914 war, it became neces-nicasured as special "exciters" sary to rebuild Plecadilly Circus vibrate the machine through the tube station, which meant the undercarriage supports. temporary dislodgment of Eros
from above his branze basin of Work has also started on the
unhappy memory.
Britannia prototype which includes several modi-
Quite a lot needed doing to fications. It is fitted with
Eros to special "magle eye" in the nose. renovate and replace his former dignity, at the same This warna the pilot if there is
another time that the nation desired to cloud or
aircraft in front. a monument to erect elsewhere a the beloved Queen Alexandra, mother
of King George V. Gilbert was the man who was needed for this, they said, and quite a lot of his sympathisers recalled that he was still living' market.
Experts who have studied the first test results on the new propeller-jet airliner belleve that It will be as popular as the Comet has proved on the world
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PARADE OF THE HOME GUARD
Britain
Red Army Leaders
Take
L
Precautions
By PATRICK MAITLAND, M. P.
Arrests are now located in three specific territories of the USSR..
London. munism and an easier time strength; however, since the Second World War, the ATEST news of the for all are not far away. Soviet purge strenses
world's markets had been Popselov, in his 1952 divided into a Socialist and its basically military
-Lenin Anniversary oration, a Capitalist sector. This character.
proclaimed the Voznessen- division (which the West sky line:"Today we may had imposed on the Russian say that Communism is no bloc by economic sanctions) longer n goal of the distant must be exploited to future."
Socialist advantage so that the Socialist world could counter attack and win markets till Capitalist Capitalism was brought to its knees. So the first task for Russia and her allies was to consolidate and deve- lop their domestic economy and military strength.
on
Mikhailov's theme January 21, however, was an attack on laziness in the name of class war. significance of this in the
These areas mark the possible approaches toward her industrial heart which in the event of conflict may lie open to maritime powers using sea-based, then land- based, aircraft for waging whole pattern relates to battle to control the skies. earlier events.
Firstly, there is trouble
in the Ukraine, accessible Shortcomings
from the Black Sea should
the Western Powers once
craft clashed
The
Such a thesis came as a sharp disappointment those who, intent on the propaganda cam-
neutralise Bulgaria and N recent months, it has paign against bureaucratic secure-the-Turkish Straits. been evident that serious blundero, now saw that it was Trouble is also located in shortcomings in the Soviet intended as u vent for popular discontent as Stalin, quashing Lithuania, flanking the system were being either the belief that times would soon the people Baltic approaches to Lenin grnd, where there is known political enda. to be a restive population
Stalin argued, in effect, that For instance, last Octo-
the transition to better days and over whose territory
ber's 19th Communist must Involve dislocation that Sovict and American air- Party Congress was pre- would now be an economic ex- rather more faced by local assemblies travagance; above all, that it than a year ago. Finally, throughout the Union. At country was safeguarded from could only be afforded when the
there is trouble in Lenin-
cach, the leading Party within and without. grad itself.
members denounced bureau- But to discern the mili. trucy and attacked all who Intimates knew that a conflict tary nature of the purge, it had kept to their desks in- was shaping up, Red army and is necessary to review some stead of keeping in touch navy
In this opportunity. of the background, and with the masses. follow the complicated race to accuse one another, often a matter of it was conflicting pattern policica which so often have chance whether a particu- led to the sudden dis- lar person so attacked had appearance of former
been guilty of the offence. broses.
tackled, or exploited, for be easier, drove
harder still,
of
Red
Purge Victim
IN this connection, the
identification of another purge victim was confirmed rectly when a newcomer, Mr Mikhailov, was chosen for the honour of delivering the Lenin Anniversary Ora- tion at the Marx-Engels- Lenin Academy.
At the same time as Stalin's
Icaders now
Danger
saw an
IF a purge was coming, it might help the Forces if it But the upshot was a na- could be so conducted that tionwide Indiscriminate Beria and the chiefs of the Secret Police were brought campaign against bureau-
The Impression was ** created, that the Party Con-
cracy.
under control.
The affack on Voznessensky
an allegation, against foreign
gress, when it convened, and his theories, hidden beneath would voice the sense of imperialism and, for a change, the people. Thus-so it was the Jews (the Red Army ta as believed would the de- notoriously anti-Semitic as its mocratic character of the
Czarist predecessor) would servo several purposes. Demolish the power of the Secret Police, regime be proven to all!
the Army's principal rival, and However, once the Con- thereby climinate mortal gress assembled, it turned danger! out that this artificial cam-
• Beria's Secret Police, paign was to be set to an helped Malenkov to consolidate The previous two years other use, another target of his position after the orator
Peter N.
denunciation slid gently death in August 1948, are now Popselov, Director of the
into view. Institute. Popselov's dis- missal row emerges from the terse mention of another man's name as director.
Was
themselves under fire.
י
who
Zhdanov's
A BAD SIGN-WHEN TAXIMEN STAY MUM.
Beverley Baxter reports on his return from New York
to
London. I always keep facing me the McGregor want dow
of the world where we defeat again, but Sedgman, of expect trouble." The part was Wimbledon fame, turned Kramer, Amcala's No. 1 pro- fessional, into an old man. And Australians played rings around Just
to finish it off the two the Americans in the doubles.
ΒΟΣ to stare at.
Incidentally, a New
Let me repeat that the crowd, which had pate
some £7,000 the privilege, could not fole in their
NO be debouched from a part
luxury liner to the the Far East. open deck of a tender I do not know whether Mr at six o'clock in the morn Truman has takers the gift away Ing is a sobering experience, with him. It is more likely that But that is the fate of those he left it behind for his succes- who travel in a French ship
Yorker for which merely pauses at who has lived on the fringe of have been more Plymouth before proceeding world affairs for many years applause. to the comfortable noon without holding any official post-
tion suggested to me that Japan Phenomenon arrival at Le Havre,
might be invited to take over Korea by degrees. You agree that it is a starting ides, full of politics dynamite and shocking to the conscierge.
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"Japanese armament chares have had a sharp rise,” he asid suavely. I make no commas) on his statement but merely put it on record.
Yet psychologically. It is not at all a bad thing to interpose a foreign interval while journey Ing from Amerka to Britain, 1 is unfashionable now lo BOY that everyone lovce two coun- tries his own and Franke- but there is still some justi- Dcation for that sentiment,
The French have a supreme And what about their fear of gift for finding adventure in peace? Taxation and the 'cost of bothing. At dinner
the Diving are doing a Dervish dance Liberte (once the German Finer with woges and Income. The Europa) a Frenchwoman comes restaurants and theatres are to the table delighted first that crowded, the stores are booming, If the dince the women are spending more she i a with her husband she is amused and more. But some of them are
it cannot go on. saying that
A New York newspaper pro- prietor told me
that
his.cm- ployees now work to a 36-hour week. In fear of what may lie ahead the unlians are demanding
woman.
rot
at the adventure of it. It he
then she her husband equaly amused.
is
is
Jittery
NOW, to go back to the begin- more pay for less work.
ning.
I found Now York cock-eyed," he declared.
more jittery than on any of my
visita since the end of the war.
It is a bad sign when American taxi-drivera do
Church pulls
"It's
THE next night I wint to see T
the phenomenon of the now three-dimensional film which is exclting the whole ot tho cinema world. By the use of three cameras the full vidon of the
eye now comes into play and with the most starting results.
We did not look at the Canal in Venice; we went on it in a. gandein, When Iro hopped. Across America in en oeroplane we seemed also to be in the air. If an oncoming towards us it was difficult for train rushed people to suppress a scream.
The Immense curved screETI fills the whole stage until
.you loo quite comfortably. But I am could show the Battle of Water- not quite sure what they will do when they
to show Wellington soliloquising.
want
There is no amber in New York's traffle lights, They show red, then green; which in faster and safer than our system. For not engage PUT it is not only the night some reason New York's motor- stranger In conversation, This Bu
clubs and theatres that are drive on the horn. Piquancy is
like motorists Ists
in Paris, time the canaries did not sing. crowded. The churches In
When I asked a friend for an America draw large rad devout hooiing after a certain period is added to the symphony because explanation he answered that congregations despite the fact
illegal. allowed to compete I'm sorry
America is haunted by two that the theatres and sporting spectros
o-war and peace, The ha
Ovents ure Korean struggle is immensely with them,
because
unpopular
that it sprends
no and because
The The in
- there I On my last Sunday
of a congregatio was one of
Tragedy many homes
dogs taken out for a walk one can see an end to it. This 1,500 people at St Bartholomew's I AM arry for the poor little is reflected in the thousands or Church in the morning; and I in the elty streets, sans grass,
of the 12,000 people who ants trem, was one
sans everything, X deserters who do not respond to
saw Sedgman
and McGregor, of am sorry for the ever-expanding their call-up, and it would not Austraila, take sweet revenge number of people who have to be wise to put this down merely
that afternoon at
Madison-travel by underground like to cowardice.
Square Garden over their pro- massed
robots. I envy New The people say that President fessional American opponents Yorkers the view of the river Elsenhower won the election by Kramer and Segure.
that Sir Gladwyn Jebb showed his pledge to go to Korea, On the previous day the Aus- me from his office. I love the niedge
which implied to the tralians, making in New York tingle of the night air when one normal mind that he intended their professional debut, were walks home. I have no words to do something, about it.
the kindliness of easily beaten and the news to describe
out When I
pointed saw President Tru- papers
the New Yorkers when they are not between
the first being rude.. House difference at the Whitc
class amateur as opposed to A great, three years ago he ghowed me a
noisy, courageous, the first-class professional. cruel and fascinating place that large globe of the world on swivel.
Ол "General Eirenhower
the Sunday afternoon, dwaris mankind with its tower- gave this to me," he said, "and before mast sporting crowd, ing majesty.
man
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BORN TO WEALTH
but never idle rich
By EVELYN IRONS
where
she hád filted. up That picture of her old home is one of a large collection that Mrs Aldrich does not imagine she inherited or bought over the she will get much chance of years and she is bringing it to cooking at the American Em- London, with-a prized portrait bassy in London, but she faces of her husband by the British quably the prospect of being artist, Simon Elwes. This pic- hostess at formal diplomatic ture now hangs over the open receptions and dimmers.
fireplace in her sling-room, «
In the long, many-windowed drawing-room
DL
be able to find time to visit
New York, PLACID, round-faced kitchen.. woman in the mid- sixties, with alert blue behind eyes glinting spectacles, sits comfortably on £ chintz-covered sofa pouring out her favourite drink.
her New The art shows The drink is China tea; York apartment hangs a paint-
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It shows night scand the woman is Mrs Winthrop just a
few blocks away, but MRS ALDRICH hopes she will W. Aldrich, wife of the half a century distant in time, millionaire banker- philan- with men in alonks and toppers art shows. I always try to seo thropist who is Elsen- and women in sweeping skirts current exhibitions, i, enjoy hower's Ambassador to the against a background of great buying pictures to add to my
houses
collection, but they must not be Court of St James.
over-modern. Portraits of Ono
of those houses belonged As her plump, freckled hunds to
green-faced, one-eyed women Cornellus Vanderbilt, and 'dispose of the teacups, Mra has long since been torn down pass me by." Aldrich THYS
She keeps up to date with her frankly: "My to bulid a Fifth Avenue store, husband was due to retire from Another was the home of Mrs reading, proferring blography, the presidency of the Chase Charles B. Alexander, Mra history, essays. “A novel mint Bank three years ago under the Aldrich's mother. is now he really outstanding or I am age limit." (He is a vigorous
by replaced
not interested." cinema. plushy
She named 07).
In that house, with a
a huge Churchill's war memoirs among "Now he has this great new ballroom and many.
her favourite books, sérvants: appointment. What a wonderful Way
to retire.
And it is a wonderful thing for me, too,"
Mrs Aldrich's con-passago in booked for February 18.
No novelty
THE: trip to England is no
the
19
Mrs
D
Akdrich (then Harriet Mrs Aldrich asked - me about Alexander) was taught how to the golf clubs around London, be a gracious hostess from the In the U.S., she and her husband time when she was a day girl play regularly at Piping Rock. at the fashionable. Spence Her handicap is 10. “It ought school:
bo better. I still love the game, although maybe I'm getting a bit old for 12"
taught
to
Dow
War help
Mother's lesson novelty to Mra Aldrich, WWHAT
was the most im- who is the daughter of a
W portant lesson her mother, :: wealthy New York lawyer.
her? "Shp Impressed' THESE are busy days' for tho "Father took me and my two young sisters to Europe every us girls that we should always
Ambassador's lady. so make a point of talking to any year. The first time was
Besides
planning her ward leave ago I don't remember the guest who appeared to be left robeshe is taking several out and ignored by others. She dresses, bought on Instammer's date. With intervals caused by
Gald this was not, a boring visit to Paris, and filling gaps. ware I have been there Zhdanov, it is alleged, was
but often rewarding obligation nearly every summer since.
from New York dress houses murdered and the polles cre
she hob -round” of “committeca This time the journey moans and interesting," A Division
Mrs blamed for allowing this.
Aldrich has known no to attend. Mrs. Aldrich makes goodbye to four married daugh- ters, a married son, Alexander, thing but extreme riches all duent speeches without self- The Army makes the new
her life, but she stresses that consciousness and enjoys organis. and ten grandchildren. Popselov's offence is that THIS was disclosed by Mar- change, associating its
It means packing possessions, she has never beon idle rich. Int
ing dharitabla events. Sho he has until lately supported shal Stalin who con- ideological campaign urging the homely flat overlooking Central she holds.
gramme to gain power with an
and dust sheeting
efore America the large, "Wealth brings responsibilities, recalls that before the theories of Nikolai tributed to the Party's in people work harder and rele Packs.
entered the way a
"and" when 'St. She is not over-anart and was not over-popular to take Voznessersky, fcemer Polit tellectual organ Bolshevik he rustion's military strength., It means abandoning to a bureau member, Chief of a 50-page casty on "The As the Army press is case,
caretaker, the seaside house and doners will not find her a part in war activities, as was the State Planning Com- Economic Problems of attention is framed on politicat
estate in Maine where Mrs Alplomatic fashion chairman of the Help England
Mme. Magli; but they Ball at
the
Vincor-Astoria, Aldrich loved to practise her will certainly and her warm raising u largo. mission, and Vice-Premfor Socialism." Here Is the gist, come along the military
favourite hobby-cooking.
hearted, a woman who Lalica
Aldrich
is proud unti stripped of these
appecaches to the induste
There her husband went easily, making people feel In- family link with the bountry Though; Lenin had cors heart, of the Unien which still honours in March 1949.
yachting. Mrs Aldrich, who
where she starts a, haw career rectly foretold the ultimate ca mainly us to West of the
followed the races by motor- stantly at hope,
Sho Libe travelled widely. in In her dixties. Her als té, FMirs Voznessensky hus con- decay of Capitalism, he had Ural Mountains. To the Army boat, enjoyed
thiess bra aries of high rastegle American Ash chowders or Europe, especially In France. Arnold: Whilridge, married an tinued in private to argue also recognised that it was simidicare, which, above all fobeter slows in The Floghouse, Sbo, speaks French fluently and American grandson of the Eng his theorica that full Com- for the present gaining che, must be safeguarded. #luxury, but in the gardens, German nearly as well.
concoeling
Mr
of one
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