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REVIEW OF THE YEAR

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at the Foreign Office. In September, Admiral Sir Rhoderick McGrigor, First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff, visited the naval station in the colony. Sir Esler Dening, British Ambassador to Tokyo, passed through, as did many other British and foreign diplomats proceeding to or from their posts in Peking, Tokyo, Korea or Taipei. The Mayor of Rangoon, U. Htun Tin, visited the Colony in November and inspected various installations of the Public Works Department, hospitals and clinics, reclamation areas and refugee camps; he displayed much interest in the large number of re-settlement camps, where he saw some of the modern sanitary and fire proof homes now being built.

Unofficial visitors to the colony included His Eminence Cardinal Francis Spellman, Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York, on his way from visiting United Nations troops in Korea, Lt. General Sir Otto Lund, Chief Commissioner of the St. John Ambulance Brigade in the United Kingdom and Overseas, the Countess Mountbatten of Burma, in her capacity as Chairman of St. John and Red Cross Services Hospitals Welfare Committee, Sir Stanley Unwin, Chairman of the books and publishing panel of the British Council, and Prince Axel of Denmark visiting far eastern branches of the East Asiatic Company in his capacity as a director of the firm. Other visitors included distinguished entertainers such as Miss Helen Traubel, New York Metropolitan Opera singer, and Alfredo Campoli, British violinist.

The design of the projected City Hall was discussed in the Legislative Council in February, when it was

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