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Sweden Between Giants

July 1940.

I test you will find this notice on the

TF you attend a service in Westminster Abbey

acnt:

Air Raid Warnings

Should an Air Raid warning be sounded during Service, the procedure to be adopted is as follows: 1. All Abbey doora (except the East Cloister door) will

ba open.

2. The Service will at once be closed with the Blessing

or, the Grace.

3. In view of their special A.R.P. duties, the Choir will

leave

tho

Abbey with all roverent speed and proceed to their posts of duty.

4. The congregation are urged also to leave the Abbey and take cover in the Shelters provided in the base- ment of the Methodist Contral Hall, or in the base- ment of the now Church House at the south side Dean's Yard,

8. The Clergy and Vergers on duty will remain in thức Abbey until the congregation have, had an oppor- tunity to leave.

NB-The Public are advised that the Abbey is not i safe place during an Air Raid-and are strongly ad- vised to take shelter as recommended above at any time when an Air Rair werning is given.

Behind that notice is a story of great Interest. to the whole English-speaking world: the story of the defence of Westminster. Abbey `ngainst air attack.

No national shrine in Eng- land, and few in the world, can bo compared with the Abbey. Jeromy Taylor called it an “acre sown with royal seed"; but it is not only a cemetery of kinga, it is the place where statesmen, poets, writers, artists and inven- tors have been given national burial,

To be buried in the Abbey is the last tribute the nation can offer to a great man.

THE Abbey is also the cradle of Parliamentary Government. The House of Commons struggled in infancy, and grew up, in the Chapter House of the Abbey. In that place it met until 1547, when it crossed the road to St. Stephen's Chapel In the Palace of West- minster,

In the Almonry of West-

OUR

"No matter how adequately sandbagged our monarchs may be, the fact remains that the Abbey is 'not a safe place during an air raid."

SANDBAGGED QUEENS

by H. V. Morton

The Coronation Chair used to "Do you know where you are?" he minster, near St. Anne's Chapel, stand a few yards away, with baked.

A moro Incongruous. Juxtaposition has surely never before been seen. even in Westminster Abbey. ·

Next, we entered the Chapel of the Pyx, where in ancient times the pyx, or box, conlaining the standard. coln measures of gold and silver were kept. To-day the kits of thirty-ave firemen hang there.

"Did you know that Westminster Abbey now has a hospital of its own?" asked my guide.

He unlocked the door to the Nor- nan Undercroft and revealedɩone of the most surprising of all the Abbey's

In that solemn,

neat beds, ready for air-rald casual- tles.

bears the fadicativo "LR in received in Lile United Press Associations, he re- Caxton set up his printing press; the Stone of Scone beneath it. "I'm high up," I said, ""and there transformations. sither wholly or in parbid republication, an association with the church Chair and stone have been sent is empty space in front of us; but I fortress-like rooms now stand rows of alther wholly or in part without previous that printers have perpetuated to the country and will not be can see nothing."

"You are in Abbot Islip's pew, in the word "chapel", which they seen again until the war is over.

overlooking the South aisle of the use to describo any printing In the north aisle of Henry nave," he replied. Then he raised BEHIND a screen is a table set works or meeting of printers. VII's Chapel, a mighty rampart his volce and called down into the

out with surgical instruments Firement and Arst ald appliances. Those One consequence of the German So great and varied are the of, sandbags conceals the tomb darkness. "Hallo, there! success in Norway is the virtual memories clustering about the of Queen Elizabeth. Mary, Just shine your torches on the Un- chiefly responsible for this strange known Warrior's Grave, will you? revival of what appears to be a monk's dormitory are Mrs. Barry, isciation of Sweden from the West. noble building, and so many are Queen of Scots, lies beneath a There was a movement in the dark wife of Canon Barry, and Mrs. Bul The Swedes now are hemmed in with the men buried there who belong similar pile in the south aisle, Germany of an elbow and Russia at not to England alone, but to the and the splendid tomb of Henry and ddenly two thin beams of light lock, the wife of Dr. Bullock, the

wavered a moment, lighting up a few Abbey's organist, the other. That is not a comfortable world, that any disaster to West. VII and Elizabeth of York is gaunt columns before coming to rest position. It is dangerous; yet not so minster Abbey would cause a completely submerged by sand- upon a blaze of red poppies, a With tender thoughtfulness, the dangerous as some observers suppose. feeling of rage and sorrow to bage.

ladies have expelled from the Under- In the year 1920 I had seen the croft a singularly hideous gargoyle The Third Reich and the Sovint Union are reported to have reached an agreement to keep Sweden neutral

of Germany, even though Russian

wor

sandbagged our monarchs may

Torches in hand, we entered the

quiet."

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its own gas filter plant (and designed: so that at the end of the war it can

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pass over the civilised earth. But nothing can be done to Unknown Soldier buried with pomp and a huge stone comn; two objects. When I went there the other safeguard the roof of the Henry and ceremony. I have seen the which they rightly feel air raid

shall I forget it as 1 saw it then; at contempinte. in the present war. If this is so, day, I heard a fascinating story VII Chapel, which is one of the many times since, but never casualties should not be asked to of war-time London. About a most exquisite things in Eng- night-time during the second War,

in dark- A visit to an air raid shelter, a Siveden la not entirely at the mercy hundred people live in or about land, a roof of stone carved with with the silent Abbey rising in building of reinforced concrete with milliary power may seem relatively the Abbey precincts, and spend such audacious certainty that it ness about it. unimportant since the Russo-Finnish their lives in attendance on the seems to hang robbed of all Abbey. It was strange to finsh

church: Dean and Chapter, weight, like festoons of intricate ight that expired before It touched be turned into a garage!) completed Russia does not have to command his staff, the. Clerk of Works

choir, vergers, the Registrar and creamy lace.

the roof or died out halfway up the mytour of Westminster Abbey, in

overwhelming military force to make

But no matter how adequately columns of the nave.. How black it war time.

was, how eerle.

As I groped my way home through and his staff...... its wishes respected in the Baltic aren.""

said one of the Bremen, centuries of life have shown the old For the Kremlin has already shown

All these people, some of them be, the fact remains that, as the fume, chairs that make you the black-out, I thought that, nine how determined it is to secure its hardly known to each other by notice states, "the Abbey is not "They go off like pistols; at least, it church many strange things.

Air sounds like that when everything's It has seen dead kings lying: position there. For example, one of sight in peace-time, have been a safe place during an

Raid."

stripped to the waist in the glow of the earliest defents for Reichsführer drawn into a close community

Two firemen go up to the triforum unbleached tapers; it has seen Hller's policy of protecting all Ger- by the danger of war, as if the As I looked at the protection on patrol together, and then tele- Queen of England, Elizabeth Wood- mans was sustilhed in the Baltic Abbey were once again a self- provided, the thought of the phone down to the nave to report ville, sitting alone on the rushes all

walled

desolate and amazed,' regions at Russia's hands. Just after contained

monastery possible effect of a bomb upon that all is well.

secking sant tuary from her, enemies; it has seen the Berlin-Moscow pact was signed ruled by its abbot.

an old building, honeycombed tifousands of Germanic people were

TN order that they can enctele pomp and pride and plety go march- IN And for war purposes, this is with tomba, was present in my the church, a bridge has been ing down the centuries in company called "home" to the Relch from precisely what has happened. mind. Even during burials in built high over the west door, join with greed and envy and treachery: areas they had inhabited for hun-If any danger threatened the the Abbey, during the moving ing the north side of the triforium it has even known one murder. dreds of years.

Abbey, the church would be de- of heavy monuments, the in- to the south.

Now at last something entirely new The men then ascend to the roof has happened to it; something that fended by the clergy and laymen stallation of heating, or in the

and, after telephoning again, begin neither King, abbot, nor baron could course of ordinary renovations, their long and knee-aching descent have imagined. We call it ARP, who work there.

So far as A.RP: is concerned, the thin crust of marble pave to earth. This continues at intervals or 1940's miserable gift to history. it is a self-contained unit, un- ment has now and then broken, all night long. connected with Westminster's affording a gruesome glimpse We climbed through a spiral tube A.RP., and the Abboy com- into the royal vaults below. of alone to the triforium, and en- munity has only one objectto The coffin of Queen Elizabeth has circled that high place, someumes most arregant, belligerent circles.

been seen lying, as it has lain since advancing carefully to the arches, preserve the Abbey. It has its 1603, cap of that of her sister, like people on the edge of a preciples, Had the Soviet leaders assumed own sub-station of the A.F.S., Mory. The coffin of Mary Queen to shine our torches down into the that German success in Norway in Dean's Yard. would threaten their position in the

of Scols, lies in the middle of what inky cool of the Every verger member of the Dean Stanley called a startling and ghost presented itself; a tail; spectral Balfie, they would have moved when choir, and workman, is trained an awful scene, surrounded, as it in form with block eye-sockets, Germany did to invade Scandinavia. either in, A.R.P. or fire-fighting, by a vast pite of leaden comas, som

Putting my Ught on, I saw that at full size, For one of the fears among The Abbey's head warden is Mr. children, all confusedly heaped to suits of white asbestos clothing, with some the size of small intervals along the triforium hang neutrals everywhere was that Scan T. Hebron, the Registrar, and gether, one

filted headpieces

with skull-like dinavia might be crushed in a Russo- the chief fire-fighter is Mr. urns of various shapes ile tassed they are not fond of ghost stories held by a Jehovah's Witness was

upon the other, while German military pincer. The Rus signs did not move. Whether they Bishop, the Clerk of Works, about here and there.

in Westminster Abbey, but a persis described as a pedlar's licence counted on a better showing by the The wardens number 27, the

tent inquirer · can generally learn Allled forces, or on the potency of fire-fighters 86, and the first-aid

JAMES I was discovered, not their own diplomatic position is not

of the inexplicable things by Judge Stewart, the chairman, mark, but lying side by side with gineers and plumbers, clear. But in the absence of the party 11.

Tribunal, at Leeds. Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, belleva "the Abbey ghost" was Twas obvious that we incredible companions in death. On last seen upon the ove of the mar-The card was produced by Thomas had to organise our own another occasion a starting glimpse ringe of the present King and Queen. Davies, aged 21, of Laisterdyke, In view of the present situation in defence," said the head warden, was seen of the last royal, burial in It was kneeling in a brown habit at Bradfont. Norway, and of the reported Russo "because no outside person could He lies with

the Abbey, the tomb of George 11.. the high altar, which was already. He said he formerly earned 35s. a

his queen.

Caroline, in

for the wedding next mom- week as a polate washer, but was

Russian lafuence to-day is condi- tloned by the approximately equal

balance of power as between the Allies and the Third Reich. A threat to choose sides in the war at tracts respectful attention even in the

former they have been able to fall back on the latter to protect their Interests.

1

A tiave,

Jehovah's Witness Is A Pedlar

A "MINISTER'S. CARD"

with his wile; Anne of Den- omly seen by levelhended en- at the: Conscientious Objectora"

Thurman angivement, over Sweden, be of much use to the Abbey; a huge black marcophagued the alde linggo, was such a solid-looking - how heated

now an ordained minister of Jeho acquire particular Interest Russian intimately could find his way. directed Just before his death, so advances into Bessarabia are Inter-

searched in the belief that some The Judge examined the card. preted widely in the Balkans as part about; no fireman could find the that their remains might be mingid parition that the closed church was

together.

"all that it means, he said, "is of u move to check Rome-Berlin Axis Hydrants, or make his way up Such dark, grim secrets of the But no one was discovered that the holder is a full-time ac

stranger might have been locked In. pressures In Usat region. While to the triforium, unless he was vaults of Westminster, so different Returning to ground level, we credited salesman of the International Hoviet leaders may have aimed these familiar with the intricacies of from the splendid marble monuments found our way by torch flashes to Bible Students Association, which is manoeuvres chiefly at Italy, they also served to build up a Russian bargain the building.

in the church above, are always pre- the Crypt, where I saw an astonish-run from London, Eng mi position `vis-a-vis "Germany M "We know this wonderful Scht in the mind of the Abbey au- ing night. chamber has a of a pedlar's "licence; bût pediars-are- Legally the card takes the place thorities, who pray that, "whatever This small stone To-day, at any rate, the guarantee church inside out, and we are may happen to the Abbey, the dead single squat pillar of red sandstone, not ministers." but of Swedish neutrallly evidently does therefore the right and proper may not be desecrated.

from the centre of which springs the Asked what form the ordination hot to solely with Berlin. Russia is people to defend it from air at- *Six freinen are on duty all night," sixteen ribs that support the floor of look, Davies, replied, "You take the reported a party to it; and is party tack. OPTRINIS PAGE PE

was told, "constantly patrolling the the Chapter House above. Vestments stand and preach the Gospel. You that can become troublesome la many. As I walked round the Abbey, Abbey. Vergers, choirmen and others and altar frontals are

are kept here, ore ordained by Almighty God, not: 'quarters, should German interesta In Sweden show signs of developing into 1 saw signs of war everywhere, work a wardens' rota and are on

duty round the clock."

'the': next, Evestments for the complex. The Rur- Most of the important tombs said that I should like to visit protectorate

day's services were carefully ant have

complained that Ger- have been sandbagged the Abbey, after dark; so in, the depth laid out, beautiful shimmering bro many's Norwegian thrust was taken The tomb of Edward the Con- of the black-out that night, I return- cildos sown with threads of gold and Meetings of members of Walalt Mat without regard for Hasatan suscep- fessor, erected, says legend on cd and was admitted. I was taken silver, and next to them, on four Co-operative Society have decided tibilités Apparently, Soviet diplo mney has decided to put a padlock mound of earth brought from a guide with a torch; opening a little military precision four aremenu, kita; by the Socfety shall be dismissed with

through the Jerusalem Chamber by kitchen chairs, were laid out with that conscientious objectors employed. the Holy Land, is now invisible oak door, he led the way Lawards a bells, gum boats, gas-proof clothing, a guarantee, of reinstaterent, after beneath its covering,

wall of cold, omply darkness. 7. tin hats and respirators.

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by man. There is no formailty"

Davies was removed from the ra giater without qualineation.

the wor