She was a young creature of some nineteen or twenty summers who assisted us In a flying tour round Moscow. Her English was good and only now and again did she hesitate for the appropriate word, and thought there were taxis galore, nothing would serve but that her charges should travel on the Metra.
Frankly the writer was not parti ularly Impressed, It is a very' good electrical underground railway, cer tainly no better than those to be found in other countries. Marble walled stations, indirect lighting, huge ceramic pictures of various phases of Tusslan life under communism, go to mak stations which are no better than those to be found tu London, though obvi considerations have dictated the form might appear to those who visit the We were rushed past the new buildings designed for all manner of workers in that new style which finds beauty solely in the straight line and the right angle. Blocks of buildings are going up as if built with the high-coloured cubes which have delighted many a childhood. The quaint beauty of indigenous architect ture is forgotten, its romance Is pass ing, and all that will remain is the uncompromising severity of modern architectural thought.
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