ON FRIENDLY TEEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 39, 15 August 1939, Page 11

ON FRIENDLY TEEMS

ART DEVELOPMENTS

BRITAIN AND GERMANY

(By Air Mail, trom "The Post's" London Representative.)

LONDON, July 17,

Mr. Robert F. Wilson, the Art Director of the British Colour Council, has been touring Germany to investigate architecture, applied art, the standard and fashion colours of women's wear, men's wear, and interior decoration.

. At Berlin he had interviews with the directors of various creative and standardising Government departments and with the officials of the German Labour Front.

Friendly relations exist between these departments and the British Colour Council. At the Deutsches Modeinstitut information was exchanged as to the working of the German and British Colour Council with regard to both women's and men's wear. The standardisation of colour was discussed with the German Standards Association.

During his tour Mr. Wilson visited the modern buildings of Berlin, including the Olympic Stadium, at which he was present for the rehearsal of the Midsummer Fire Festival, Herr Hitler's architect's offices, at which he saw the plans of roads and buildings for the new Berlin, and the scale models of the buildings to b"e erected by 1950, including the new University City, and he was one of the few people privileged to see the interior oJ! the Reichskanzlei. He also investigated the work of the Modellschau der Deutschen Arbeitsfront (the German Labour Front), with special consideration to interior decoration, as well as the new holiday centres for the workers and the building of new shops for workers' holidays. Mr. Wilson visited some of the largest factories o£ Germany and the historic buildings of South Germany, being in Worms on the first day of the Opera Festival of the "Die Nibelungen," and at Mannheim on the day of the Sports Festival. He was impressed by the friendly spirit of the German people, in whom he found a genuine desire for peace and a wish for the closest cooperation with the British people, with whom the German people feel they have so much in common, both racially and culturally.