1954-11-18 — Page 4

BUSTLING BRITAIN — THIRD DAY

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1954,

HOUSES BY THE

B

MILLION

By LES ARMOUR and RONALD BOXALL

brood.

But

allegedly "less fortunate,”

Y 1946, Hitler's block- homes, filled the iminedlake gap: contributors to the tax pool, busters and rockets everyone had a root over his they were Fukid'sing The had destroyed ΟΤ damaged one British house In every three.

problem.

thof stil! left the reni For another, no matter how

much money' you had, it wan It was complicated by two next to impossible to get a per- facts: the population had grown

mit to Yet today. Britain is one

build your own house. during the war;

All the available rescurces wer of the best-housed countries 1 millon

Into povernmen in the world-as well housed hundreds of thousands of prewar belag pumped

houses were barely habitable projects with dogmatic foryour. Canada, according to even belone the bl}[z.

The Conservative Government. #hulted Nations

heir Throughout 1938 and up to the which fell Hurveys,

to the pro- There are one million more outbreaks od the wur. for fremme, dermined to shift the houses than there were in dwellers

instance, more than 1,000 Mum balance.

day had been moved 1939 - they are better and more attractive houses, projects.

ml.

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The

Socialt

Build Your Own

*15**

Nilil

new, government bising war brought that

dead halt. story behind those movement to s

But Tete one of the

most was plein that it had to begain THE vast majority of hus fascinating chapters in the gain all immediately.

The

Government,

belag bul?! fu history of human achieve electol in 1945.

LF1

determined to government authorities. But it l combine the plans. In their six vasar to build your own houre (35,712 hourei were built fr Ficture a nation emerging years in tile, they built over from six years of total war of then were pombe national, the Sicialst Landon Count a mollas drum Fghty per bare 20,000 in 1948.} Recently, cent private owners in 1962, agains

W..!: much of its industry and heal Beterminant projects,

Cound) hes beve wrecked, ant

buliding of it heavily subsidised, often renting

number of houses for people in creaking and antiquated be for as ille as 22x, 04, a week let

bracket They wise awarded is proRPIN -

Income exise maintenance had been te wants a

system They rated it cost.

usually impossible; its transporta bed a size of family, stander

our tax gumes a week. More important, the not cal tion system limping; aral of exlovog neer mamma Con ani

Sveinmit mos! - I its manpower facing

Buthors Bro people to buy publicly as wel JIN privately Balt

more

Piaggering switch from way to sauce,

Houses were uppermost in everyone's mind. But they had to take second place to industry. Either it had to be factories and houses, or factories and factories,

Filling The Cap

wartite sebe,

Hot Issue

d

come

new plan will enable prospectiva purchasers to get a mortgage as high as 95 percent of the total rest and in spread payments over as much is 30 years.

Even so, the problem is not

One difficulty st lved

JWIE scope of the achievenwent 1 is eteurer if it is remembered ...n 1935, when the prewar build ng ban was at its height, taste accvunted for 48 percent yet

f nathinal building uput In from the zlanaka tunt that sid 1932. 16ough 118 many houses houses becane derelict as fast WEIN being built, houses were Da new enes are put up. Con- ly 31 percent of the total. balled rents and hertages of But building houses to the materials and killed labour 1.mit er S far back as 1942, the intercely and locating have himpered repairs,

need was aceteding t wartime Coalition Govern- dey

remedy desperate

r let th*

ISSUES en modernisation.

AS

ment had been laying plans, peral situation.

<

3

dean

FUT we thing, the "middle

A new low permits landlords The cost of repairs. to recov and the Ministry of Housing

me

But allowing for That, there

between 700,000 and

the

"Grandma can't find her Sunday dress-what was the Guy Fawkes you burnt on Friday wearing at the time?"

SEEING

AN OPEN

WAS inside the group of Russian

surveying of

Commons of Mosenw.

"Is the public admitted

slon?" I asked my guide.

Lendor Express Service

RUSSIA WITH

MIND

ke size went

students to Bri-

were

no

easy-to-assemble bits, com- classes," who could hardly ever 900,000 more familles than self-when Parliament is in ses individual selves we were

refrigerators chairs. Those,

jobs

on

kitchen to

contained country.

dwellings

ן!

More Shocking

to

as

Dore Silverman recently did just that as one of a party of students. As

publics of the Union parad- iny folk, students,

00-

WBA its

no. Communist,

professional before classes and others. There ing and marching

no doubt whatever about Milenkov and his

gemineness. Ministers, ench item ended with those taking part 1 certainly Special Correspondent shouting: "Salaam", "mir" and arriving in the Unton with for the Yorkshire Post or other versions of the word a party of individuals not sent on the trip, he also "peace". carried an empty notebook and a great deal of curiosity. And in this article he tells what he found.

And in cussions "wicked

famous

student

the word, word" of cartoon,

and

re-

ur sponsored by any Communist or even friends-of-Russia body, dis. was

with

fow very the unimportant - exceptions the ceived with a warmth which

from would emanates

old, true

Kremlin, the vast hall (it has tain. 1,500

sents) where the Supreme Soviet of the But we

moto The first of these called for use of the hottest conducting experiments in cheap USSR meets. the House of than a group travelling to-

initial and 100,000 American-style box- record.

gether. Although decidedly like prefabs. They came in

not a "delegation" for we represented nobody but our plete with everything from rake up enough "points" for a council house, became the de-

constantly referred classes,

oflen pressed

paying exorbitant

"Of course," she replied, such, and for runta

sub-

were certainly and quick patch-up stonden accommodation, while,

with some surprise, "Repre- given facilities which other moderately damaged of the same time, as the biggest

sentatives of the workers, wlse would not have been of delegations, available to us. MANY more are still living in members

houses without basic cen-members of clubs are fre

Or observo the co-existence Ventences.

quently seen here. You saw ' wont with an

open ingless, or the playthings of

of Storto Preliminary

bonds with returns from the Rome such

prizes groups being mind, empty notebook a dogma.

to say drawn by lot with the Marxian Nast census (1951) show there shown

the building and a great deal of curio- over fames sharing when you came in." ore 1,008,000

not dogma "To ench according to Prathe

and

meet have committees for peace. his work"; contrast the output 4,809,000

sity. What I found was a entirely

The first words to without. Mone shocking, 1,709,000

contented,

my plane Nor do we have committees of tractors with the women The reply

happy, my eyes when what is

people, fervently

eating or breathing. caw patriotic, touched down at Frague politely called a "water closet," teristic.

but labouring under a regi- a sleeping city with We take these desires mentation of the mind air of decline which are in rural the elector, the individual, of which the more percep trusted sadly with the gay,

alum but organisations, groups, tive among them

be busting capital of the thir with a look which suggested of statues of athletes placed in committees, "the party".

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ፖፒ forced to share

WAH charac. The "public" is and 1,023,000 have none at all.not the man in the street,

Moat ed огода, and

dwellers

are

them

few D awaiting rehousing. Seine,

doubt, No

ape DIREK Britain's 80,000 families who live In caravans,

11

aware

even

must

www

come up in almost every friends.

sentence.

1 was "In Britain

movedi

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do

for

con-

natural."

The statement was

quite frightening ties was the notice in that the speaker

French, English, German little queer.

In various parts of Russia in its potential.

But the problem WILL | solved.

from Today's houses are not de potentat slums that their Victorian Counterparts were. They are built to last; built with easy maintenace in mind; and Pal authorities ærelse the right to make sure they are kept

trim.

Most of them are aveted in suburban "estates," with plenty of

open space around them, segregated tum nearby dusty. and attractively designed so that their occupants can hardly help but teke pride in them.

I saw such groups from

brond

Czecho slovakia, China, Korea, France. But all were "de- legations". The individual has to be very important to be allowed to come into Russia.

alone

Meaningless

and Russian: "Peace can

be kept

peace must be

I

in

hand-flailing wheat As felds near Moscow; end the permitted nude bathing at the seaside -- separate beaches for met the sexes with the thousands

WIS

£

pals and at crossroads glorify-

ing the human body but clothing the female figures in more

suggestive nudity can be.

a way than

pure

kept. On the side of the Russian Theme

locomotive great

which trought me from Lenin-

Russia is a "democracy". grad to Moscow was the Poland,

What is the purport of this Women Labourers Czechoslovakia, large sign: "Peace to the drilling? Is the only "peaco" that Hungary, Rumania, Bul- world". garia and the three Baltic

I went as a member of a republica are "the people's In a stupendous 41%-hour want peace" is the party organised by the Na- democracies”.

com- Mos

which is imposed or dictated by Russia? "America does nat Set the splendid, fast, Russian fortable clean trains on We do not physical culture display in theme. "See how she is ringing cow's underground against the tional Union of Students regard them as being de Moscow's Dynamo stadium, the Soviet Union with bases for ghastly interior of one under an arrangement with mocratic. But in Russia with hundred upon hundred her bombers with their atomic atations, where the vast the Russians whereby a words become either mean of groups from the 16

ROUNDABOUT ROME WITH JOHN WREN

Farouk With Goatee Draws Tourists

ROME'S biggest tourist pool winnings be limited to

ment

.

of its

con-

re. cargoes. And you British "allow course between the platforms yourselves to be linked with this is lined with stained-glass hostile Amerien. And at whom windowa Put the profuse 1. NATO directed if not at evidence of the country's high. Russia? We have not established stajo of mechanisation against war stations against the West, tho' lagt; that women, not. all- We have not formica

young women, and to be seen in so many plices, working groups directeil against you, road building and rail-track How can you say that you want laying, carrying stones with peace? It is only the people's their hands, democracies who want peace.

warlike

on

two

"They Just won't leave me Elder daughter, Edda, widow

Unfortunately, that attraction of the mo- a maximum £30,000.

"You see how we are rebuild "Russias is more than it matter alone. I bought 2 tomata of Mussolini's pompous foreign ing Stalingrad," said Irina to me of habits and details of internal is ex-king Farouk,

canning factory. But the cops minister Count Clano, has a (and I had visual evidence at organisation. The country may now growing a small gin-. After a Turin coffee mer- stopped my trucks and opened luxury home on the gerish goatee beard,

nearby the rising of a new city, from well be proud of what has boom chant won £143,000 for 18 the cans-looking for drugs, playground of Capri,

dopecy socially, and, industrially, the Jubble-and-art plain that since the revolution. That does More human and de- correct results (the largest Enough to ruin a guy."

The reason for it all? The

the war had lost it). "Do you not cause concern in the outer win ever in any country's mocratic than previously, pools) Italian M.P. Signor been in the armed forces, for ed personal property

I asked "Lucky" if he'd ever Italian Government has return think we would be spending world. But Russia via vis the Farouk is seen nightly eat Dino Del Bo proposed a legal fie rumoured he was a wartime relatives of the late (and-not- we were preparing for warf And

to the millions of roubles doing that if Big Power? ing hamburgers on a high curb on such large chance secret agent, atool in an American-run fortunes, which he termed quick limch counter, and bad for public morale".

| playing the fruit machine in

Roman night clubs.

"Naw, but I'd have liked to have been in the Navy." The former American gangster. There's a good reason for pointed to a fine model galleon Not so bad

poolsters being mad. Italians on the mantelpiece. . “Pirates. as painted, have so many relatives that row they were men!” Farouk does not drink, keeps his temper

£30,000 would not bo when enough for a winner to re by ill-mannered tire on after his many abused drunks and is a good brothers-in-law father.

their pickings,

....

Rome,

When away from he nightly talks by long- distance telephone to his daughters Princesses Faw- zia, Forial and Fadia.

POOLS BAN.

had

LUCIANO AGAIN

had

THE MUSSOLINIS

Jamented) Great Dictator.

A LITTLE JOKE

ww struck by the fact that we have no civil defence in whenever English history came Russia"

up in conversation it was porti- Russia)"

cularly the more turbulent aspects of it which were quoted Wat Tyler John Hampden, the Wars of the Roses, Crom well's dictatorship.

I replied that wars did not always start of planned Inten-

Some people have a strangation, sense of humour. The scene: an Italian boarding house near Modena whero everyone 18

tucking into plates of mush Contrasts

rooms,

Suddenly a boarder falls to the floor, shouting "I have been poisoned!"

itwaye

Dickens is better known than any other British, author-the recent Britlati tim" of one of

la

books

starring Jarnes

Or is it all a conditioning of Hayter Is on view in Leningrád, the mind of the Russian people Moscow and other big elle Kremlin would be able to rally adapted from his books When

the and there have beers...... come,

Ever wondered what happen- ed to the Mussolinis? The ones who survived the war are doing Fifteen other boarders Lake nicely, thank you

one look at him, another ut their half-consumed plates of the nation with For years we asked why, was told: "We

cried. 'pouco While you work through a mushrooms--and

but they like to study the social implies- "Lucky" Luciano, most famed British winter, the Mussolinis pante seizes the entire dining in theirs? Only the hierarchy here was shown' the mufferinge

would not heed us. The blame How in his work." gangster sinca Al Capone, now are taking, life easily on 4. Tooth with the romult") that! living in Italy after deportation mmny Mediterranean isle where fifteen groning boarders are and I was not able to meet any government?

cari answer themo `questions, of the poor under abo from the United States, is they own comfortablo villa, rushed to hospital in having to explain his business 11 Duce's wife, Doona Rachele, where a

cars. of activilles before a Naplos watch-lives on Ischia laland with her on everyone. Then someone

ja somach pump two youngest children, now

· Rimela 'is'a "notless the

"poisoned" Note the attliude of 1tgov- Boottiatt, ahinets were

of contrasts. in Fayda" "reomily" told" original football pools enthusiasts: *

their twenties. Son Romano, boarder avoiding the stomach ernment to the Western world paid time only countopalky bosal I spoke to "Lucky" in his completely unlike his father pump and sitting in the corner only at it against the sincere her ord so are up in arms against a tuxurious Naples home, over-la shy, A fáze enthusiast, and roaring with laughter at his warmth of the welcome Parliamentary proposal that looking Vesuviu

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