As against this, there are very aged directors who ought not to be engaged in any work at all. I believe the L.B.S. Railway haze one the frontage, and the decay is particularly pronounced-on the west! Side of tLe chapel, whens Napoleon buried. The invalides has a small income from admission fees, amounting last year to about £7,600, Dut this is insufficient even to cover even inskle repairs and other small details of upkeep. A
Targe alice went last year to restore the mosaic flooring of the crypt round Napoleon's tomb. 'The ccle-Heated gilt dome is now a grocnishgrey, with hero and there 2 small patch of dull yellow, the last! Nettiges of the original gold laid ea in the time of Louis XIV, when the building was erected.' The organ and. the stained glass windows also neod repair.
The, Fine Arts Department has so many alls. upon its resources that it cannot make proper provision for the upkeep of even such A unique, monument as. the Inalldes. "As for resliding: the dome, Uhat would be regarded as a piece extravagance quite unjustifiable in the present financial conditions, the resources derived from heavy) taxation being needed to pay. inter esi, among other things, on foreign teanes and s0, in all probability, the Invalides dome will romain gteenishegrey and ungilded for "many years to come unless some American millionaire steps in, deere? to the annual! chair. In other words, he regards the job as a cure of livelihood to him and he overlooks his respon Dilities to the shareholders. too, are over one in he had the chai effective results committee of 24 to 6, but there fare plenty of organizations which have as meny directors as. this. Many rubber companies are certainly over director-ed.
[An Historic Speech Nobody: expects the British overseas to take much interest in the Local Government Bill, since the sole effect on them, 30 far as T can father, would be—it there is any effect at ali—the cheapening of ome lines of manufactured goods firms which receive from the State payment of three-quarters of their rates, Eccause they are "pro-Avelive indwtries" and therefore wwe have every interest in stimulate ing their expansion. Still, that! fought not to prevent me paying a tribute to the speech by Mr. Neville Chamberlain,—the of Health, in moving this week the second' reading of this Measure. which was carried by the usual majority and which will now be discussed in Committee until about Easter, since it is s0 detailed, Mr. Chamberlain spoke for two) and a half hours and showed grasp of the Measure and a clcarness of exposition which elicited the thanks and appreciation of everyone, irrespective of part: is a very difficalt Measure to under stand in places, and if we lived in France we should probably, like the French, have circulated this speech broadcast through the country at the State's expense, since it ix the first simple and clear version of the Bill and its purposes which T have: yet encountered. Mr. Chi the House and one cannot imagine him a magnetic leader like his father, but there is no one alive who Knows as much about Local] Government as he does, and he Learned all the ground work in Birmingham. By the way, Sir Austen resumed work in Downing Street looking the and round-the-wor 'a new advertisement.
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