THE CHINA
MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1953.
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Buildings Must Be Buoyant
from
LES ARMOUR
London.
IR Hugh Casson, Bri- tain's leading crusader for modern architecture, is a man who makes his living out of dream castles. And, one day in the very near future, his latest creations are going to come tumbling down around his ears,
Sir Hugh, 42, small and inp- like, is the man who designed tho Coronation decorations for the City of Westminster-the coronets which seem to font un- Attached over the streets, the soaring golden cage which pro- tects Eros in Piccadilly from the crowd, and the bok scurtet cape suddenly attached to King Charles in Trafalgar Square,
But Sir Hugh is getting used to seeing his creations crumble. His first big job camb (wo years ago, when he was com- inusioned to design the Festival of Britain buildings South Bank.
the
O which
FAIRYLAND
ол
the
sprawling fairyland mushroomed over-
ght at the end of London's Hungerford Bridge, only the
oyal Festival-Haji remains.
But he is one of the fathers of a revolution which is sweep- ing the world.
Long before he ever got u chance at a major work, be wrote a dozen books and scores of magazine articles blasting The architecture he saw around hiin.
He likes buildings to looks like ballet dancers-on their tiploes. His favourite, word is buoyancy. Buildings, he thinks, should appear to occupy the air,
o the ground.
stone
idea
BACKGROUND
HOPEFUL
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PORTENTS
AROUND THE QUEEN
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N manner. that he perhaps never intended, monarch in my the father's person came to exemplify the British ideal of the family mun. In their King, his subjects
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virtues which, rightly or struck deeply into my father's by mands scek to re- its full course it to possible that
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like that about me."
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Edward VII, who enjoyed the society of witty men and beau- tiful women, who rollshed for- eign travel and the savour of high diplomacy, restored to the monarchy the magnificence, the colour and the variety that had disappeared during his mother's willeh This noble aspiration,
reign. By contrast George V's ARW 21 and the London docks. The
said reign reverted in tone to that of they re- had long needed
has been taken Victoria's, becoming almost an summing-up of the domestic tumultuous welcome
ceived from the working people in Britain,
that echo of that era. signal
Had mine run They should look spacious, and take advantage of geome-
On returning to the she intends to irigal figures atlier than
were widely regarded emotions. the not,
its mood and textura would have kindle alnost in
her compatriots its among peculiarly British Palace he remarked
something of the blong. The boxes in the main a
spirit followed more that of Edward of adventure of the first VII. That of my brother Bertie auditorium of Royal Festival probity, forthrightness, unbelief, "I'd no idea they felt Hall look like roller-coaster sobriety, devoutness,
Elizabethan Age. To be sure, a who followed me as George VI curs rolling down the wall.
It is, of course, too early to glance at the present position was almost a falthful reflection
of British of my father's, he hates shum..deration and a mistrust of Above
circumstances exactly how my niece and
this phony
suggest that fronts, Imitations innovations. In this image predict mediaeval
architecture, he came to fulfil Lord Rose will cleet to employ the varied power must
functions of monarchy
in the would not be an easy task. For extraneous cluttering trimningsbery's hopes for him as en interests of her subjects. It is the conditions that made pos He thinks buildings should have irm, clean lines. But they must monarch who would "strike perhaps enough to suggest here sible the grandeur and glory
Elizabethan Age-the is the firs: that the British Monarchy the imagination," although
of Drake, sweep, not jut
Frobisher, TT was natural that this should thing; ake CENTRAL FIGURE one again might wonder not a fixed and statle
rather
it is an Institution in Hawkyns, Raleigh and the other be. My brother was very much
adventurers who IN short, his
of good whether the king as "family continuous
enlightened gentleman
family man with a happy home enter- architecture bears ittle re-man" was exactly what that evolution. That Queen Elizabeth opened the sea routes and the like my father. He was another
will follow the example of her "far lands" to British concrete slabs the British Gov-patrician statesman had in mustrious forbears by carrying prise-have all but disappeared. Rhú children; he had the same
That this indeed the process of adaptation
for And in any case the manage zest for shooting and found the
abiding conteniment Fame London for its office workers. was how the British people ward yet another step, I have ment of slate affairs has long Sandringham and Balmoral. He
since passed from the monarch's
collected stamps as had my And that may be why.
hands.
father and he made a hobby of Government has so far shown regarded my father, and no doubt,
Sil, if British power is not collecting rare plants for his
at Royal what it once was, certain hope garden
Lodge in ful portents curround the young windsor Great Park; and there Queen. She la fortunatein was the sume disinterestedness deed, ai Joast to my way of in foreign Ideas and the same
should CHE has
disinclination for foreign travel. already shown that thinking, that her reign
This old country of ours is Homes have been marked by
essential instinet so well de- begin under the auspices of that
me," Is crude against big, over- The dominions and colonies scribed by Lord Rosebery, of great Englishman, Sir Winston quite good enough for
Churchill, who in standing forth herself felt stuffed furniture. This, he says, oversens joined with the United making inkes up
too much
Kingdom in a month-long car striking the imagination of her as the oloquent protagonist
estob- modern overcrowded life, and itnival of
people, homage
In her first Christmas a free society, has remained le not comfortable, anyhow, His 11ished beyond
that broadcast as Queen from Sand- staunch champion of the mon- question
archy. V had raised the ringham she said: "Many grav Sir Winston designs fit the humen shope, and King George.
mas, and not
new problems and dimeulties the prestige of monarchy
con-
has served furniture,
Even his imperturb- front us all, but with the central #gure in heights,
sovereigns. As a the room.
able temperament was surprised faith in the old and splendid be
sub- cavalry never more liefs given us by our forefathers An a consequence, London rnd stirred,
slim.than when he and my mother and the strength to venture be altern he fought stores are now full of
in Queen
Vic Dustere furniture in metal and drove through the poorer quar- yond the safeties of the past I wood which
through Lime- know we shall be worthy of our makes even the ters of London, tinkest upurtment look blg.
Whitechapel, Lambeth duties." house,
iation to the massive, square, ernment is erecting all over mind.
the
a tendency to bire him for jobs moreover, what they desired
they expect to tear down.
But, if his. Influence on the Government is not vast, his influence on interior decorating 154
leave the
room
in their monarch, was de- monstrated at the celebra-_ tion of his Silver Jubilee in 1935.
and
wisich
of and
a
UP GOES THE COST OF
AMERICAN WEDDINGS
New York.
P goes the cost of wed-
dings, for the dress-
making industry reports
that wedding gowns bo "more courtly."
must
AMERICA COLUMN from
tumes ballet..
and dancing in
this
NEWELL ROGERS:
Seun, demasks, will brocades, there had been talk of a million velvets, and laces should be ton loan of the wheat modelled on the Queen's Corona-
The other 300,000 tons will bo riven later, If needed.
'tish gown, it seems.
Already the average Ameri- enn father spends one-fifth of a
year's earnings on his daughter's A TRIUMPH for British music Arst wedding. That means about and for the musle of Ben- $940. But there is a rich harvest jamin Britten at the City Centre of wedding gifts worth an Ballet.
While a spotlight played on
of $ 1,500.
Alvor and remarries, the royal coat of arms,
If, sho
her
forj
He
toria's wars. served both Ed- word VII and George V as a minister of the Crown.
He was one of my coun- sellors during
in
have heard my father teclare; I
of
a
am sure my brother would have said the same.
of
their The parallelism natures was extended even to the major events of their reigna. This is the fourth My brother's first King years
over- and concluding were
shadowed, as had chapter of the
been my father's, the resur- Duke of Wind-by
gence of German the Egression; sor's. Corona-
second World tion Momoirs.
War overtook his reign even more swiftly than the
my personal crisis in 1930 and fist had overtaken my father's. as Prime Minister during the Ho and my sister-in-law Eliza- second World War he was my both shared with the people of brother's constant adviser: Un Loaden the dangers and strain der his leadership the British of the biltzes-and Buckingham not spered. Much all thoughts Palace was have abandoned of
discouragement and disillu- sooner than my father had after been, he was confronted by a immediately ston which the war weighed so heavily on socialist government.
dead-
The constant strain to which CONSTABLE JOSEPH BROZ{their spitit, sugeria King George VI was subjected drow his pistol in Brooklyn's ning & ambition and resource by his constitutional and repre
Initiative and ing the
them sentative duties was augmented fulness which had made
A young queen named towards the end of his reign by great. 'started shooting at four hold-Elizabeth could net and in her the pain and anguish of falling up men who had revolvers and realm a more authentic repre- hentin and of two major opcra aawn-off shotguns. And oft they sentative of Elizabethan auda- tions And I
am not insensible scampered, dropping two load-city and imaginailon than her, of the fact that through a deci ed weapons and forgetting their venerable Prime Minister. getaway car.
Silver Rail bar,
From behind
table ho
HARLIE the tigon (offspring
of a tiger and lioness) not long for this world.
An
man of mine he was projected into sovereign responsibillies that May .at first havo weighed heavily upon him. It fell to him to carry successfully monarchy British the THE
HE history of the
monarchy over the last two through the most difficult phase Central Park Zoo officials can hundred years
curious of the social revolution which and find nothing wrong physically, second wedding will east audience of 8,000 stood
end was untimely and His and in the charactor
personTM unly $350. Down, too, goes the hummed their way through the Purely montal they say: thinks aludy of the rhythmic alteration began in my grandfather's time
British national he is a misfit. value of the second lot of wed- unfamiliar
ality of the successivo occupants greatly mourned but he lived they burst out anthem. But ding gifts, to $300.
III, long enough to see that totall- [Hanji,
London the
George 200's of the throne. "God
of tarianism in any form is not The typical 1953 bride is 20, loudly on the final line.
tigon, died in, 1932; at Man-though he know blo
hours Save The Queen."
chester's Belle Vue Zoo
one unpopularity, was pitied for his congenial to the British national They watched ballots
to the named Maud died in 1949 aged profigate sons and eventually character. But what must have THE
The Rev. Maclyn Lindstrom musle of Sir Arnold Box
and 17.3
for his own physical infirmites; been equally satisfying to him chiki grow Muarantees
weddings Britten, his
including) the world
ark into womanly against divorce. In Erle, premiere of "Fan Fore" based
upright man who left his mark Tennsylvania, ho Insists
on Britten's "A Young
George hor married to a young man of Person's DRITISH travel oficials face
"Farmer George." Guide to The Theatre."
tough competition from other TV, his eldest son; had rejoiced resolute character and endowed the orchestra
agents played European
for tourist as Prince of Wales in the sou- with a modern mind, and to see Sir William Walton's "Orb and dollars now that the Coronation briquet of "First Gentleman of the succession armly assured by Europa" but by the time bo bo the birth of two grandchildren. happiness" 1" not great he says the Queen's eniry into the For example, there is a 45-day came king little survived of that William IV autori through the Delgian elegant reputation. In the middle, the curtain went up. There in the spotlight, Congo for 2,200 dollars (806), had been in action against the big-game hunting about £430 Spanish fleet early in his novai on a sort of, throne glittered extra. And a live weeks' wing career; from having been a
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premarriage counselling" of couples who asit him to marry them
Thon
I ho belloves their chance for Sceptre" march, written for tonic is over.
now!!
·
In eight years about 40 of
Abbey.
the more than 200 couples ho myrled, returned, to him with thain, troubles. A
Put not one; divorce yet." COMARINE 19 saffahan
PRESIDENT EISENHOWER is.
now thinking of an outright gift of 700,000 tons of wheat to drought-ridden Pakistan. Earlier
vot he was himself a simple and was to see his crity: to sce
THE END
exact coples of the orb and drinking tour of France for 1,100 somewhat dissolute princo he (Copyright 1903. World Copyright sceptre, with the crown of Bt.. dollars.
became a dull and colourless including all rights under Pan- American - Gopyright Convention" Edward and the Queen's crim
king. "The French tour is quite a Victoria in her turn lifted reserved. Reproduction in part son Coronation rabe,
I have seen nothing more success," saya, atravolgent trom the crown the moral sigma, or in full in all tangungos strictly breath-catching on a New York They never know where ther of what site used to stage this season than the cos- Ex
mail" prohibited. By arrangement with "my wicked uncles." Then tre, London Sunday Express.)
EISENHOWER MAY SPRING SURPRISES AT
T
BERMUDA
By PATRICK MAITLAND, MP
London. means comprehending them be tremendous import for his own
forehand.
country's foreign policy. For Ave o'clock one Hero both the British. Prime he will not only have had the morning recently a Minister and the United States chance
fully
io manter hlu tired, member of the President have devised Im- briefs; he will have had leisure British Parliament leaned portant, but different facilities for reflecting about them.
At the height of the war, for against the Clerk'n desk in
lo Sir Winston
Buld
That is why, in contraat ot Raymond Gram Swing's radio the Division Lobby awaiting
the note of frustration and oven his turn to vote. An all news commentaries that it was despair that haunted Whitehall
back about. a month
the difficult to understand current night sitting was drawing
events without listening to him. laggardly approach of the new to its close.
Administration to current issues That was the obor assertion in economies and diplomacy. of a wartime chief with all the
doak a fresher voice, though coming from an older man, bade him: "Move up, young man; I'm just un tired as you are."
MOST COMPLEX
Or reports reaching me from
As he leaned against the resources of the British Intelli. the world may now spe decisions
once, let alone of the Diploma- pour out in swift succession.
Events have, of course, moved the Service, at his disposal. He
+ faster than Mr Eisenhower's was saying, in effect, that statesman, like anybody else. Staff system had hoped, do that can lose the wood for the trees; his Staff officers, newly. Into and that in any series of their jobs, have themselves re- phenomena, which is necessarily ceived a jolt. Such is one of a saga of incomplete, the shrewd inter storier told of Sir Winston preter needs to simplify whathe Churchtil. Whether
or truc
he sees or hears, and then to 1 pocryphal it is in keeping; more lot his Instinct or Intuition play.... important, it carries à moral,. a part in his judgment.
To be the Head of Govern- Parliamentary inent under a system is to take on an Immense. ly exhausting work. That is not made less true by the fact thot in the case of Sir Winston discloses his any conversation astonishing power to trate on what he is being told, to grasp whatever new idea, problem.or. situation may be put to him; and, often enough, to resolve a fresh solution..
HEAVY BURDENS
cen-
itself, very
The problem for a Chief Executive is to and the time for such reflective activities, indeed lo arrange inatters so that ho obtains enough leisure.
SWIFT DECISIONS
persons close to the President make it clear that Mr Elsen- be on hand with hower will Ideas about Korea that may even be unpopular, with ideas about the dollar pap and the convertiblity of Sterling, to say nothing of tariff policy, which will confound the crities.
R E.Lenhower has tacided
Perhaps the most camest the problem in a new way, subject is airs the most com which is not yet understood fully and because of which he plex-the question of preparing is often blamed for Jagging be- meeting with Malenkov, Cer- tain inside reports in which it hind Congress.
confidence He has set up a Staff system instyt that Mr. Eisenhower bas
la proper to place at the White House, with already made up his mind to Chief of Staff and other oficers meet the Russian chiet, and he whom he has delegated has already decided how
miany teci- sell this to his public,
to
WHERE the constitution de- u
mands of a Government authority to make chief that he belong to the slons hitherto expected of the
President himself.
The chosen technique is to preside Legislature, as well as
This has left him time to appear reluctant and to bow to over the Cabinet
That: pro- pressure. heavy burdens are imposed. And think and, in that feature, anada British
recent grainme, it may be supposed, has Sir Winston's essent. In- events march more rapidly, him different from any with more intense communica predecessor.
It explains why at the Ber- deed, the idea was worked out tions, the greater is the burden
the Prime on whoever would master" and muda Conference he may well and grood before
to take decisions of Minister's speech." be fitted
mould- events. This in turn
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