28 JANUARY 1938, Page 36

The Beauty of Efficiency And I hope he enjoyed his

experience as much as I did last June, when at the very civil invitation of Dr. Todt I was shown the latest section, still closed to the public, some- where between Ulm and Stuttgart. Nothing Mr. Burgin said in praise of that superb modern highway exaggerates its wonders, as they must seem to our eyes in 1938. It may be that in another twenty years it and its fellows that are to knit country and town and frontier into one neat pattern will be as out-of-date as our own tragic Kingston bypass, but in the light of our present understanding of a new problem they are magnificent. And, moreover, aston- ishingly beautiful, with the bloom of virgin countryside and " the keen, impassioned beauty of a great machine."