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the free governmental system
that has fostered such an econ
omy. And they do tend to JUS
tify a steady allegiance to that
system and a willingness to
safeguard it and to try to
spread its lessons to peoples
abroad.
AS a Nation, we have never
told the story of our advances
in housing and architecture to
the world. We have done some
fine things, it is true. like send
ing an exhibition here and
there; inviting architects and
city planners to visit us; send
ing architects and others
abroad to serve as consultants;
being polite and helpful to
visiting architects. builders and
engineers.
But we have. never drama
tized-even in understatement
the political lesson of our
democratic housing achieve
ments so that peoples hungry
for evidence may easily find it.
Now let us look at how the
press Office of the Polish EN-
bassy has handled the large
scale tour" of Poland by 48
architects and city planners
from 20 countries.
"Peace" Line Linked.
You don't need to be adept
at spotting propaganda to find
the way this full-dress treat
ment of Polish reconstruction
has been dealt with to extract
the utmost propaganda value
from it along with the stand
ard line on Soviet peace"
One United States citizen was
a member Of the party. His
name was not listed IN the news
release. An inquiry to the
Polish Embassy's press Office
about his identity brought the
reply that the name was "Mr.
Creighton" No first name or
address was available, a press
Office spokesman said.
Here is the Polish Embassy
version, in full:
"Forty-eight architects and city
planners from % countries have
completed a tour of Poland which
took them to many of the nations
major construction sites. On thu
invitation of the Association o1
Polish Architects. the group o.
foreign experts inspected new con-
developments such a:
Nova Huta, the new steel-making
;ity near Krakow and completed
their survey with an intensive
study of the rebuilding and mod
of Warsaw. Countries
from which the architects anC
,ity planners came were Austria
Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile
Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France
he German Democratic Republic
Great Britain. Holland, Hungary
Iran, Italy, Korea. Norway, Ro-
mania, the Soviet Union, Sweden
svria the limited States and West
Germany.
"A high point Of the experts
our was the visit to Warsaw's
argest housing project. the Mar
;zalkowska residential quarter
n the center of the city. The
square of the quarter
vas opened on July %, Poland's
national day, in ceremonies at
.ended by the visiting architects
and city planners. In honor Of
Poland's adoption of its new con-
stitution on the same day. the
area has been named Constitution
Square.
Building Of the huge quarter
was begun in September. 1850. anc
when completed will house $4,000
persons, many of whom are al
.eady living there. The quarter
will have it's own schools, hos
oitals, health and recreation
:enters, a huge restaurant, shop
ping facilities including a depart
nent store and supermarket. the
aters and movie houses. Five
heating plants are to serve thu
district and there will be severa
garages and subway stations. Tit
sxpanse of handicapped grounds
and surrounding green belts viii
make the Marszalkowska district
before the war an ugly section o.
the city-one of the most attrac'
i've communities Of the renovated
capital.
"At the close Of the tour th'
visiting experts were interviewed
BY the Polish press. In giving hi
of what he saw, Ma,
Lock, a British specialist in towr
said: I think it is actu'
ally a miracle that you built VI
Warsaw in so short o time. M,
visit has served the purpose o.
enabling me to see some of you
wonderful works of reconstruction
"'It has brought me into contac
with a great many people with
whom we have been able to ex'
change opinions. The tour ha'