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FROM GERMANY COMES REPORT NO, 1 BY REPORTER NO. 1

BRITAIN IS MAKING

A FOOL OF HERSELF

By REBECCA WEST

HAVE spent three weeks travelling in Germany, pleased and proud because I am British, and the achievement of the British and their Allies in Ger many is superb. I have now come to a full stop in the town of Dusseldorf, where, on the contrary, Great Britain is making a fool of herself, and I do not like it at all.

Occupation of

By our country, we and the Americans and, in their own pecuflar but got Inellective way, the French, Jiave worked a

iniracle.

hare raised the dead.

We

I was in Cermony three years ago. It was then inhabited by ghosts who

about

shuffled

among the rubble and had no hope

Now

people,

Germons

ore

nozni living a

normal life. Their cities are still heaps of rubble. This is not due to indolence or Inefficiency. The rubble Is left where it is cause it is crushed and used for buliding purposes and is 'trans. ported directly to the sites where it needed.

be-

doubt the They

But beyond - nil

people are

Sourishing.

of living are

and all

can live their lives now,

the means round

THE WRITER

Rebecca West was named the World's Best Reporter

the United States Women's

National Fress 1947; she recently the

112

WAA

awarded

CBE. Her most outstanding re- ports were the Witam Joyce trial, the Royal wedding, the Nuremberg trials, the Greenville lynching trial.

would be angelic they did sisted the entrance of the dis- not) the value of what is being mantling destroyed,

The Future of England's Old Houses Hangs in the Balanco

What It Costs

To Keep

Keep Up A 'Stately Home'

E

By Bernard

Harris

The charge now is the the same as it was in 1800-18

ACH week brings news

of, one

more of "atately homes of Eng- a head. land" coming into the mur- ket.

'I have been discussing

Seventeen hundred visitors at 18. a head pro-

the problems of maintaining duce £85 a year. these grand old, houses with an owner who

That is only a drop towards concerned to preserve his place..

is deeply the cost of maintaining the home as a home.

Π

He is the Marquess of

"If the house were owned by Exeter, whose family, the probable loss of several thou- company i would show a elder branch of the Cecils, sands a year,” Lord Exoter said. has lived at House, Stamford,

Burghley The owner can keep it in the since it was

Lincs, family only by drawing on the built in the income from la estates. days of Queen Elizabeth,

Goering wanted it. Documenta Germany disclose that Her- captured in mann Goering intended the house for his own use after the war,

It has 145 rooms, and stands in a park seven miles round.

and magnificent avenues of There is a mile-long lake. chestnuts, Ilmes, and oaks.

Now for some of the more

+

its Innorucuness, inst the use of force.

Kings, are threaten

But the rame Military Government gave Gelzenberg Benzin Company) a one of these factorles licence to spend seventeen mil-prosaic details.

(this

lon

marks-yes, one three hundred

million factory which they are now go-fabric would decay, and its

thousand pounds-on buliding up

Burghley has to be kept in to send, dismantling. Rangs treasures would be ruined.

the warm. If it were not, its to pull down.

Warming it cost than £500 last year.

and the amount of unemploy ment which will be caused by the destruction. I also think it Is carried on with an unbecom- ing uppishnets, and no sense at all of benefits receiveti,

Nevertheless, the dismantling of these works is bound to have certain regrettable conse- quencer

The are large nud Beautiful factories and an in- dustrini

population feels

the

same emotion when a good fue-

Raving lunacy

This is raving lunacy. The Military have

Government

no explanation to

The

more

long stone-flagged give corridors and rooms have to

tory is deliberately distroyed as the plous when a church is of this astounding performance he carpeted, and the wear burned by the heathen. hore- except to say that when

aver, whatever unemployment dismantling, a

to

the

dismantl

who

the degree

of firm spent these seventeen mil-and tear by visitors caused by

the on marks it had been warned come in their hundreds to German has only that its works were on the list seg the house is consider to hear the word unemploymen

fall

into a panic.

of those subject to the There are more than a mi Ilon unemployed in the Wes- tern Zone already, and money inad is short.

ity process. wel have

But the Arm mighable. Military Government would ha "We

thought that

по

he

Though Lord Exeter does not Nike the word, Burghley is, in effect, subsidised" by hi the national benent,

for

Owns 27,000 acres

about 27,000 acres-including a Lord Exeter owns altogether considerable part of the town of Stamford-and farms between 4,000 and 5,000 neres himself.

But, of course, the Town and Country Planning Act is mak-

"subsidising" a huge house. taled proprietors to Ing it vastly more difficult for continue Plumbing is another costly such as Burghtcy. item In the upkeep of a house

When I was built there was

dotted round the place. no piped water. Lond Exeter's great-grandfather pat first bathroom.

In the Now there are ten of the

The roof is ef lead. As Lord Exeter says, it would be better if it were copper.

ceiling when the Italian artist

Rain damage

As I numired 'an

Lord Exeter remarked Vernio painted years he worked at

Unl "

slight patch of deterioration.

during the 12 Burghley.

That's the fain," he com mented, "The trouble

with

just can't obtain this sort of roof is to find out

we where it gets in. It may

It

enough, at a time when enough carpet, and, if In dismantling the factories building labour, and

there was an acute shortage of could, the cost would boards and yards away." nt this late date, the Govern- to give a licence for such work Exeter, as she showed mu orainary folk realise to ment are pumping up trouble.

material, prohibitive," said unless their name was to

Unbelievable

But this is not the real factor In the

situation which makes the visitor feel that somebody them. There are plenty harl suffered damage during the ht to be put across the elec of shops open now, full. goods. Their kitchen ware

of war at the hands of the Ger- snacked. Listen now, and try

knee terate's

and soundly and with an eye to security,

llevable, They were to include phnis 1930, which could therefore be founded anxi developed

The after

and

be

be

Lady als money to find out. It costs far more money thun

.

The

and

the Grialing Gibbona carvings, keep leather-bound books, the pictures in good condition.

Two small palelings had just been

returned

Biter ала

deaning

taken off the list. And indeed round the house. that was not a wild bet on sport'or chance. the works on, the original list

One-fifth of Only 1s. charge has been exempted.

In an average year 1,700 Fot over The

consequences of

this visitors come to see Burgh- mistake are not going to beley, though the house is not

quickly or lightly. In a tourist district. trouble in the Ruhr, we should

It has been open on three would remember that the initial mis-days a week for at least 150 many, but in London. take was

Ger-years; now two days only because of the shortage of staff.

their china are far more varied mans, as a form of reparations 10 belleve comothing hardly be- When we read in the papers of

and attractive then ours.

re-

war effort, from which it

not

a

was

The restoration of this popii lation from utter misery to workaday happiness is the counted as part of the special sult of a collaboration between British and American money. British and American and French

fair that the Germans derivo a post-war com- advantage, and plants

uld mercial

substances which would make it to wage

Industrious, and of German-which produced Implements or

Comradeship, but.. casy for Germany

another war.

Government

Military are now enforcing the diamanti ing process, and, becauso workmen of four factories

C.V.R.

the re-

made not in

-London Express Service}

Thompson Reports

The American Scene

Bald.

NEW YORK.

for

When I got to the city of But the Allies Diiseldorf, the administrative mined to be fair. They thor

were deter- centre of the North Rhineland- ford took their Umo in prepar- Westphalia district which con- ing careful lists, which tains the complex of industrial the Germans a chance to sit uPE TROUBLE

CAYC and mining towns known as the forget how lucky they were to Ruhr 1 found some officials be alive, and to develop a sense

with Ameri- HOLLYWOOD HAS received dangerous Icons. who were so much in love with of grievance,

a demand from the Italian threat that

than Any Dr Mildred Actors' Guild that Hollywood against us," said he

foreign Horton, president of Wellesley, must star one their work that their talk of

What was even

could be atrayed had the colour of a ballad.

worse, the Allies revised these America's top women's college, an

It should Italian actor is help his chances of being the 1sts and exempted Arms when

is that, they are living in an age

American-made fim It had been their task to set just cause was shown. This was of fear "fear of

every American star who makes

Republican candidate in 1052. the coal mines

the atain a film of the Ruhr just but not expedient, for it bom, fear of the Russians, fear coal industry is thinking of ap- Irish golf is improving, working again at the end of the introduced an element

In Italy. The U.S. of un-of other groups to which we do pointing a permanent, impartial war, when the

were certainty. Every company whose not belong, fear of Socialism, arbitrator as a means of stop mines anbotaged, there were only

plant was on the list nourished Communism, quarter of the miners needed hope that It would be taken every other ism."

Capitalism,

and ping the annual strike threat and all labour was weak

invention for American los from John L. Lewis, the miners lack of food.

saloons -beer glasses with magallying

ons lender. bottoms through which to watch TV

for off.

The British officials bact brought two things out of this experience, the

sense of hav- ing met.a 1remendous chal lenge, and a deep feeling of comradeship with the Ruhr workers.

Dus-

is

guts-

The petrol story.

江

one off to

says Willie Turnes, Ame-

Thirty-five pounds the two.

revarnishing. The cost? On that basis some of

the larger pictures and there similar treatment.

aro more than 500 in Burghley

cost £200 vach

Elizabeth's room

for

The bedroom-Queen Elizabeth occupied in Burghley in its original state,

romaine

But as you admire the rich velvet hangings of the ancient bed and the elaborately worked fabric on the chairs, you won- der how successivo generations have managed to keep the moth at bay.

That again is a question of money and continual attention.

Before the war Burghley needed an indoor staff of 21.

Today

there is only a mini-

mum of staff, and to save work Lord and Lady Exeter have

the meat kitchens, moved the few rooms they re- serve for their own use teorer

not of

be

rican amateur champion, home heuses like Burghley are from England. What he consi-maintained

As Lady Exeter emphasises. ders

"for reasona -moro important Is, that selfish pride or convenience." British golfers are getting over Their their inferiority complex....nancially much better off it

owners would Cinemas in the US. will soon they moved out,

cost

Aware of danger

on

In the Ruhr, the dismantling rising ore Belgium and Luxem making aircraft. William Dubi- feature-length Alm. To save Only countries whose BRITISH KNOW-HOW may be selling a half-crown. candy dollar cales to the U.S. are soon change U.S. methods of bar guaranteed to last out a prices (which, by the way, te carried out with great gusio by burg. German contractors with all

one of America's German labour) has now laid DREW PEARSON, Washington business-meni-inventors, has re- ment is sending out buy-anv-the struggle will

top- money, the Treasury Depart- Yet the atmosphero in

its finger on some Birms which

How long they can continue commentator, under fire for simple little British-made tool dressed. But the postmen leave polley,

turned from seldorf today is the nastiest I carried on a process which it the attacks he has made on which he calls revolutionary. It bundles of them (which

Britain with ings-certificates appeals unad-largely

depend very have yet encountered. It

would be quite natural to pro-

futuro taxation: looded with resentment,

hibit in Germany, the manufac-

Washington bigwigs, has lost his weids metals without hent and, much more than radio sponsor picion, fear and shame.

ture of synthetic petrol.

A Massa- in Mr Dubiller's opinion, would saves) anywhere they deliver

the Treasury is awake to the danger.

Fortunately the Government chusetts Judge, Joseph Warner, cut plane-building costs by 20 mall. This is due to the latest phase of what is known as the "dis- work on what is known as the recess from 10 am to 4 pm.

Nine plants are involved: six in fature will continue without Washington with his find.

ruled that all cases he tries percent.

It has set up a Treasury Ho has mantling"

committee, with policy,

Sir sound Fischer-Tropsch system, three Sald he: "Eating lunch makes

Ernest enough

Gowers as chairman, to consider Iden which has gone on what is known as the Ber people food addicts. Two meals UDER has been given to Advertising clients

PADIO companies have started what can be done.. wrong.

"t was sellled at Potsdam and I fear, make news.

glus system. These names will, a day are enough..... Guinness's

an economy wave. Reason:pected in three months. It is The committee's report is ex- At 2.30, 5.30.ast as recent as April of this Cermian propaganda which is brew stout for the American tish, if necessary, to force od shops....Latest Loy to sult

by subsequent agreements, the

are falling Now, I do not believe all the outside New York, and will soon ton, to get tough with the Bri- more frequently outside shutter.

have

bought a brewery just plan ambassador, anys Washing way."To Let" signs appea

Averell Harriman, Marshall off and TV is not yet paying its 7.30 & 9.30year, that certain German fac poured out

P.M.

concerning should be dismantled' works. I think that the Ger- just as good as, any browed in General Elsenhowòr ́came out certain altitude, relenses, a cargo can never be replaced.

these market. They promise it will be devaluation of the - £.” -.. countries which mena

One the umesa kite which, at o they Ireland,

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