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Shelagh Delaney, 24, and Bernard Kops, 37, are none of these things. They graduated into the welfare state from two of the most ferocious slums in Brit ain: she from one of the uglier neighborhoods around Manchester, and he from the ghetto of London's Stepney and Bethnal Green. In the nature of things, the stories of their own brief lives are more manifesto than reminiscence. Delaney pokes out her pert proletarian tongue at the Establishment; Kops throws a whole coster's barrowful of dead haddock. Both have produced fascinating documents and useful items for those who like...
Lady in Lavender. In the last two decades of her life, Queen Mary's subjects had come to revere in her the traits which they had so coolly regarded in her youth. They appreciated her downrightness: "It is perfectly clear to me," she told the abashed mayor of Bethnal Green, "that when I visit the poor districts, I am taken mainly by the highways and not the byways." They enjoyed making kindly fun of her indomitable, unchanging hats. They smiled at her reluctance to compromise with such "novelties" as telephones and airplanes. They were pleased to hear that...
...Nazi Horst Wessel song could be heard any Sunday in London's Bethnal Green. Frankly Fascist street meetings were attracting larger & larger audiences...
...always has his Faith as an excuse. He has done an immense amount of good. He was appointed Lord Bishop of London at the early age of 43 upon nomination by the Crown after four years of a lesser episcopacy. Until that time he had been working in Bethnal Green, London, a slum district, full of immigrants, threaded with crooked little streets that began in Ireland and ended in Palestine; he had started the Oxford Settlement, a social centre whose purpose it was to apply Oxford methods of tempered decency to roughs, toughs, hooligans. He read of his appointment...
...London poor he is best known as Bishop of Stepney, an office which he held previous to his appointment to the bishopric of London. Graduated from Oxford in 1881, he became, three years later, a curate at St. Mary's, Shrewsbury, and subsequently head of the Oxford House in Bethnal Green, rector of Bethnal Green, rural dean of Spitalfields, canon of St. Paul's, Bishop of Stepney, and in 1901 Bishop of London...