24 AUGUST 1944, Page 4

The proposal to leave some of the blitzed churches in

London elsewhere in ruins as a reminder to future generations of what blitz was seems to have aroused little enthusiasm, and I am surprised. What need, after all, is there for this kind of remind Books by the hundred and photographs by the thousand will for all time of what London and other cities suffered. Ruins historic abbeys in settings of natural beauty are one .thing ; ci deliberately kept as ruins in the midst of shops and houses are much another. I should not feel that Berlin was particularly hap inspired in preserving ruins artificially to keep alive the memorY the R.A.F.'s visits. The right way to deal with the blitz is obliterate its traces as soon as may be.