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C. V. R.THOMPSON RE- PORTS FROM NEW YORK

DUKES IN

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A

SOCIALITES in New but when someone says she

and

York are complaining tetests Ireland, my Irish temper of too many dukes in their sets the better of mo midst, American dukes, that quick notion prevented trouble.

Only the hostess's tact is, meaning fists.

There was, for example, the D is a movement toward man- BUT AMONG CROOKS there scene at the Baroness Deuth's ners. In Brocklyn two men, who Park avenue party for Major held up Me nod Mrs Harry Zack, Gwilym Lloyd George."

under the Impression that they Just as the baronesS was were Jewellent, retired introducing her British visitor apologies. Sald ene: "We are with to hn all-Klar unembly of very American

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Said a high-pitched woman's Ow, there is no peace in the voice: "Come out in the middle air. Stewardestes on "Ameri- of the floor." The speaker turn- ca's passenger planes well.give" ed out to be Mrs Frank Hen- travel tails, news derson, who at 72 is laking box- and sports scores throughout all summaries, ing lessons.

fights. But, says one company. Mrs Henderson. was. quarrol they will talle in a nice, quici Bug over Ireland with a titled way." English woman.

I don't hate a single human THE POUND STERLING has beltis,"

salti

Mrs Henderson, seitled down at last in New York's money murkota. Finally convinced that rumours of its devaluation aro. groundicas, there is n strong demand for sterling again.

In the past the mining villages of Durham, in northeast. England, have been bleak, unlovely places, but today plans are being made for the building in their midst of

BRITAIN'S MODEL NEW

INDUSTRIAL TOWN

were

end ទេវ

By. MONICA currently

FELTON

Chairman of the Potor- leo Development Cor- poration, and formor Vice-Chairman of tho Development Corpora- tion of Stevenage, one of London's satellito towns.

mon

CELEBRITIES are being quiet- ly warned In America to be careful in giving autographs. They may be used on Communist manifestos,

A

HUSBAND AND WIFE Bled

sult in Trenton New Jersey-to-ban Bible-reading in schools Under a 33-year-old State law, each morning's classeA must begin with the reading of five versos from the Old Testa ment, Charged Maneir suit: Mrs

Donald Doremus in

"It is contrary to the Constitu- tion of the United States, which

u

of the

primary task is 10 sd of members of the Cor-IN THE MARKET for two new

of

01-

out

British suits is Senator Tom. Connally, who led the fight to

them.

HOLLYWOOD is in trouble.

Kennelly, Chicago's reform

slon, Hollywood's chief adviser,

HE. coalfield in -the-argued that the 2,300 acres

development of new Industries up and its assets transferred to upholds religious freedom." southeast of Durham, which had been suggested us

on a really extensive scale. the elected local authority of the HOSEN 08 America's Mother the in the north of Eng-

site, for the new,town

The master plan, which area, so that ultimately, the ought to be preserved instead land, is one of the richest in for agriculture,

breaks away from many of the people of Peterlee

will

become

Year, Mrs Pearle and othera

accepted views Britain, with the coal run objected because they wished

on in the fullest sense the owners Gillis, a 60-year-old post office town building, aims to meet the of the town in which they live. worker's wife, has six children, ning out in deep, thick seams to see a continuation of build-

needs of the mining community Meanwhile, democracy

in and this is what they have done three, four and five miles ing in the existing scattered

by combining high standard of planning la being made a reality. in life: one son is a top broad- under the

the pro- villages North Sea.

rather than

house design with more urban Though executive responsibility casting executive, another is a concentration. posed Easington, the administra- weight of opinion locally was But the

type of street layout than the rests with the Corporation, the diplomat, another is a professor one favoured by the garden city people of the area are brought of English, another is a musician, tive centre of this mining overwhelmingly, in

in favour

planners. The plan, too, is into consultation, both formally and two daughters are also when Mr area, is the focal point for a the new town, and

being

worked out in social as and informally. A joint com- musicians. dozen colliery villages which Silkin, the Minister of Town

well as architectural terms: for between them have a total the area in the summer of 1947 and Country Planning, visited

Peterlee's

to poration and the local authority break down the social isolation discusses

many questions population of about 80,000. the Easington councillors

from which the miner and his major policy; and local Most of these villages, in unanimous in asking him to sel fact, are now as large as the 1946 New Towns Act.

family have always suffered. ganisations of all kinds-from save the Marshall plan in Con- up a public corporation under

The town

must ultimately churches to tho promoters of gress. He burned holes with develop as a mixed community dog-racing tracks thrash

cigar ash in the trousers of the small towns; and most of

An Advisory Committee was

of people of many occupations future policy with members or this year the first day he wore two suits he bought in England them, too, are neither town pet up towards the

Like all public corporations and professions, Bving nol as officials of the Corporation. nor village, but rows of December 1947, and, after the in Britain, we are essentially separate, segregated groups, but A Bold Leap houses strongly built but hearing

and

answering Ut non-political, and though our mixing together to make a com

membership was made up from therefore, has to take account of

plan, PUBLIC meetings are organised with Chicago now, Martin bleak, uncomfortablo

life. The and several objections, the Pèleries men

master

in the villagea is enable people (7 start of people with the badly planned, clustered Development Corporation was the

appointed in Murch the first most widely divergent. political the economic and social prob- to learn about current activities around the pitheads and new town corporaidon to be a views we have never had a lems of the aren as well as of and to give opportunities for mayor, has written to Eric John- spoil heaps.

of the publicy serious division of opinion or the very beautiful and exciting criticism." which is usually con asking him to dissuade pro- ip as a result

оп anything that could be labelled features of the landscape structive and helpful. In short. Each village has a minimum expressed wishes of the people as a party line--elther of the which Paterice is to be built.

living

the people of the area are, at ducers from portraying his city the Li

área. It of shops, one-or sometimes named to commemorate a

this very early stage, already as the world's Capital of Crime, two-cinemas. church and hero-Peer

Π perhaps an elementary school and a

muner, travelled the world organisation:

be responsible for responsibility for its future. But even these and miners' club.

sort. We building the

hierarchy has put out a i new We do not yet know how lonE entechism. It is so up to date that Durham were lucky to

beginning returned to

town few amenities are so scattered

to become one of its situated on the new town site, heads of departments have al- bullding Peterice is likely to television-it does not count as find, centrally to take shape. Most of the the realisation of these plans for It gives a ruling on Mass by. und so poverty-stricken in their County

that best loved and mos. nonoured A architectural conception

derelict, but essentially s

ready been appolated and are take The rate of featureless, figures, a leader in the Labour charming, eighteenth the villages seem

century building up their teams. The depend partly on the speed of

rate of bullding

going to church. and the trace Party and only the

house. This union country

house, pit-gear provides

powers which the Corporation is national recovery as a whole, IVING COSTS have stopped. an element of drama in what evement, and the first Labour reconditioned, now for the granted under the New Towns partly on the way in which it going down-in-the U.S.-In- must

man ever to become the chuir mucleus of our headquarters. Act are very wide: the owner is possible to solve the technical the March figures, Washington been a very mon have

English Couny In what was once beautiful Jandscape.

the billiard ship of the whole site will be difficulties involved in building discloses that for the first time room,

staft of Between the two wars the

young vested in the Corporation, with on top of a coalfeld. But one In five months architects, under the direction power to grant leases to private thing is clear: everyone with no alternative arca,

who is small rise (1 percent.). Respon Peter Leo Legend of Berthold Lubetkin, is at home owners, shopkeepers, in- concerned with the building of sible for it was a jump in lamb. occupation to offer the employed, suffered acutely from

work designing the master plan dustrialists and others.

the town is determined that it prices. EVEN today, when the for the whole

shall be town, and, at the prolonged depression in the

not simply one step Nevertheless, with him mining industry.

youngest of those who served the same time, working out the The Corporation can alse forward in the Improvement of QUOW BUSINESS; Britain hus..

am well advanced details for our first plece of build houses and other buildings the miner's life, but a really bold run the local District Council, most

off with Broadway's to rent tenants of its own leap into the future, designed as annual awards, too. Rex Harri- selection, and strenuous attempts

political wishful

It must provide an Master Plan

example of what, given son is the year's best actor, improve housing standardis, 10 Thinking with the phrase: "If

sites for schools, hospitals, health sufficient vision, courage and Martita Hunt the best actress. TIE master plan envisages, a centres and other social services, determination, life in it in-

"Miranda," the British- And water supply of

the Corporation,

new an adequate

accept-

Just proper sanitation. und to

party, all that tation of between 3,000 lux.

and town is substantially completed, to be-hoalthy, gay, adventurous got past the American censors Irrespective of and

they

but could, the Pater Lee legend stands for 4,000,

with social

and the Corporation will be wound and beautiful. relleve, as far 'ns

Ibut it got mixed reviews, terms of

of social service and cultural facililles the drudgery that was the lot of the average miner's wife,

the upright conduct of public Inrge enough lo meet the needs, affairs, have decided to adop, not only of the people who will Peter Lee's

whole

Wd3

Lee, the wild bay We started from nothing: While the master plan is being conscious that Peterlee is their FOR THE FIRST TIME since two or three chapels, or gipsy descent who became with no staff, no buildings, no which will

completed, the organisation town and that they have a 1884, the Roman Catholic

once

of an

Council.

of any

of whose members were miners, begin theif

into middle age, people often building development.

made

to

Is

will

there was

install the elementary decencies only Peter Lee had lived town with an ultimate popu- When the work of bullding the dustrial community really ought made mermaid' tim, has

Away From Pit-heaps

TOWARDS the end of the war,

nt

them

trally

beautiful signature in place of

own flowing and be

De coming to

still

On G

scale

live

continue to

י,

Raising the Vatican's Influence

By.. ALDO FORTE

character.

л

n

The Vatican corridors at The disposal of the Secretariat of State.

Peterlee, bu't also of those ATICAN City-Ever sinco the coal-of-arms and matte of who will

W

Pope Pius XII held the the older new towns.

Ilve in the villages that fraf Consistory of his Ponti- the District Council's ener- getic and very original surveyor,

Except for myself, who came lle to the north, south and west ficale in. February 1046, his

In the vast field of diplomacy, Peterice from being the of us. This means that it should efforts Mr C, W. Clarke, begun to work to

have been almed at first showed his intention of

the

109 almost International giving the Roman

percent Catholic Once out plans for a completely new vice-chairman of the Stevenage be possible to provide theatres Increasing

10 non-Italians town which would take people New Town, all the members of for the Durham people have a Influence and prestigo of the Church

aro supranational Italian,

holding Important, diplomatic nway from the dust and smell the Corpora.ion had some close lively appreciation of the drama Roman Catholic Church.

-concert halls. the pit-heops and rehouse association with activities in swimming pools and many other restaurants,

posts. Three of them are: Although elevated to the sec The some spirit of supra- American a--Msgr. Loule on a healthy and cen- cr

near the area of the new recreational faculties that are of St. Peter's in 1030, the nationalisation also characteris- Meunch, at present in Germany; situated site. The town.

Harry Lee, the vice- fairly common in big cities, butriritual lender of an estimated ed the Roman congregations, Mgr: Joseph Hurley, in Yugo-- lengthening of the daily,

chairman, Journey

was the headmas.er are out of reach

of the miner 400,000.000 Catholics throughout offices and tribunals in

the slavia, and Mexr. Gerald to work would be compensated of a secondary modern school

and special oc- the world refused to appoint Vatican and even the tightly- O'Hara, in Rumania. for by Improved living con- at Seaham, a few miles to the except on rure

new Cardinals during the war sealed Secretariat The cartons. ditions

of State. and by the generous north of Peterlee. The other

The

new town, too, will havelp sign of mourning.

which

The other non-Itailans Include members included

once was 100 percent provision of shops, thealtes,

an indus to provide new opportunities

ini the hands u1

Britons, three Italian four

Belgians, social and cultural facilities of

account.ant, an ex- for

first Shortly after the war, Pope ecclesiastics. Today, well over

three French, two Dutch, one 'employment; in the kinds, by

the creation of

If an

who is a member of the place for men who on health Plus departed radically from 25 percent of the personnal German and one Irish.

The. new public open spaces and......

Durham County Council,

grounds must seek employment tradition in elevating 32 Car in these key ecclesiastic post- Archblsop Chargo d'Affaires of Intior is Msgr. John Collins, of great impor.tince to the working miner who was unti in Industries other than mining countries. For hundreds of

dinals from 19 different tions are non-Italian. scheme the

nequisition

Liberia.

According to usually of a few weeks ago the secretary and for young women who to- Castle Ellen Donc, a picturesque of the Miner's Lodge at Easing day are either obliged to travel had been heavily Italian and proceeds more rapidly le in the

the supranation- well-informed Vatican circles, years the roster of Cardinals But where alizations of

the arch

church Msgr. Collins may be appointed thickly wooded ravine, a Colliers, and who has been long, distences to work or else three miles or more in length for several years a member of to leave the area

Calmost completely European. pontifical diplomacy, Almost Nuncio to Ireland.

soon to the important post of altogether. and with an outlet to the sen. rural District Council, a And, looking some years ahead After that consistory, for the half of the personnel in that

the The scheme aroused the lecturer in economics in Dur to the time when mechanisation the Inilon majority was broken. field are non-Italian, as is also

first time in four centuries, livellest interest in the area. ham University, and the wife of the mines will reduce the

The Cerman is. Msgr. Michael a large part, of the titulārs, Here and there

Schullen, Apostolle Visitor to Six Italian Apostolic Nuncios Sarre, of jected:

which at present are marking time in native-United Press. |||||

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prople nb of the clerk to the rural.Dis- need for manpower, the Cor- It was in Ulo Sacred College because some

they rlet Council.

poration envisages the ultimate of Cardinals that the Fontiff

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