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Lord MacMillan was dull. Sir John Reith was dour. Alfred Duff Cooper was social. Then into the British Ministry of Information came red-haired Brendan Bracken, young (41), quick-witted protege of Winston Churchill...
Smaller cities were Reith's guinea pigs. First to be singled out for experiment was Coventry, whose City Architect Donald Edward Evelyn Gibson has produced a set of plans. Last week some of his sketches (see cuts) arrived in the U.S. To disciples of Frank Lloyd Wright and Walter Gropius, Architect Gibson's classic-revival façades and pseudo-Roman columns looked disappointingly conservative. But he had laid out his future Coventry on spacious, parklike lines, put huge squares and fountains where crowded slums and shopping districts once knotted Coventry's busy traffic...
...many a West End playboy who had drummed up business at club and race track would have to go to work. > Land sharks were swishing through bombed areas, buying up blitzed property at cut rates in the expectation of resale during postwar reconstruction. Last month Lord John Charles Walsham Reith, Minister of Works and Buildings, complained to the House of Lords about this speculation, called the problem "urgent." The size of the splash (whole blocks were bought at a time) made him think the sharks were big-maybe banks and insurance companies...
...Lord Reith appointed a committee to study the speculation problem. He also has larger plans-much like those once dreamt by Sir Christopher Wren after the Great Fire of 1666. The Reith dream of postwar reconstruction has wide popular support, includes 1) decentralization of industry, 2) rebuilding of crowded cities, 3) a network of national roads, 4) the use of all land for the communities' benefit. But the fate of Wren's plan is still fresh in the minds of a few realists-it ran afoul of legal snags. Lord Reith's Ministry is seeking ways around...
...task of national replanning went to stuffy but astute Minister of Works and Buildings Sir John Reith. With the assistance of Consulting Engineer Colonel Howard Humphreys as Director of Works, and Architect Thomas S. Tait as Director of Standardization, he last week submitted a reconstruction plan of vast perspective to the Cabinet. In it he recommended that such Gordian knots as land-tenure complexities and conflicting powers of local authorities be resolutely slashed, that reconstruction be planned on a mammoth scale with decentralized industry, new housing arrangements and social amenities for workers, highway planning, and reapportionment of land...