Host Of Visitors Arrive In Britain

Chronicle (Levin), 13 July 1948, Page 3

Host Of Visitors Arrive In Britain

Keceived Monday, 7 p.m. LONDON, July 11. London is starting to fill up for. the Olympie Gaities. fcSeveral teams are here, but they are a drop in the ocean eompared with the visitors who are beginning to flock in. A|ready 20,000 American tourists have arrived in Britain and many of them are going on to Europe. It is estimated that by the end of the yeaf, -100)000 will have visited the country. Tliousands are here also from tho Dominions, and xnany from other countries. For instance, .last week eight Texan women university students arrived, headed by a professor. Her subject is personality, and slxe carries her cjualilieations with her. Tlxese students deelared that they have come to see " everytliing " which, if it is au ail-embracing statement, also ernphasised that Britain — this great, great Britaixx, as Mr. Jordan calls it — still has its attractions, austerity or no austerity^. Indeed, it is a minor pastime of readers of tlie popular jxewspapcrs to learn about .their visitors. During the past weeks they have found variety among arriving personalities. There was, of .course, Mr.'Chifley, Prime Mixiister, pipe-smoker $ and mateh-burner, whose presence infiuenced leader writers to enxphasise the importance of his economic talks. Tliere was Mr. Bustamexxte, the Irisli-Jamaican politician and trade union leadei", who has been twice imprisoned. He has come to claini independence for Jamaiea. "Mr. Chifley and me, here togetlxer, eh! " he said, "England's becoming an important place. " Then there was a West African king with tlxe unusual title of the Oni of Ife. The spiritual head of millions of Nigerians, he was greeted at the railway station By countrymen who prostrated themselves, to the amused interest of Cockney po,rters. Before he was king he was a stationmaster and telegraphist. "1 liave come to enjov myself, " he said. Tliere was also Mr. Bernard Barucli, America's eldest statesxnen, a ixxillionaire and Sportsnian, and one-man brains trust to Mr. Trurnan. He was eflectively negative. "I ain't gonua do nothixx ' about notliin', " he deelared.