20 OCTOBER 1944, Page 4

Sir Monta g ue Barlow was not sure whether a story he

told at the luncheon given him by the Town and Country Planning Associa- tion on Wednesday was a chestnut or not. Nor am I. The story was of two Irishmen, brothers, who were thriving exceedingly towards the end of the last war ; one of them was laying mines for the Germans, the other was pulling them up again for the British, both for generous remuneration. This, it was insinuated, was very much how life was lived by various Departments in Whitehall.

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