In this much-afflicted district whole streets have been simply wiped out. For the moment we can think only of the sufferings and misfortunes of the hundreds of poor people thus left homeless. But looking to the future, when today's unhappiness is only a memory, it may be that we shall pean even be grateful to the bombs for the rich opportunity that they have given us. These dull, crazy, ver-ruinous little houses, homes though they were, were no place in which human beings ought to be allowed to live.
When they are rebuilt, must it be on the old model of cheap inconvenient little boxes, stretched out long monotonous parallel lines? Why should we not take Lincolp's Inn for our model in planning the lay-out, with squares, circuses, terraces, and gardens and playgrounds between to form a setting of beauty and recreation? It should be possible to house as many, or even more people in this way as in the old separate dwellings.
And think of the effect on the good omen for the general appreciafion there would be for an East End planned on the lines suggested? The evident respect shown by Londoners for all: their parks and for the numerous old churchyards which have been converted into public gardens is proof of the Englishman's innate love of a garden and the Charms of nature. Even in the poorest parts.of London these little oases are as carefully kept and their regulations as strictly observed as are Hyde or St. James's Parks.
To Make World More Beautiful The one thing which we are all war it must somehow conduce agreed must come of this wretched to máke the world a more beautiful place than it has been, and there is grave and tranquillizing
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