CULTURE OF BRITAIN.
EUROPEAN EXHIBITIONS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Aug. 15. The British Council (whose purpose is to promote cultural relations with foreign countries), which has been responsible for exhibitions in Venice, fs ew York, San Francisco, Warsaw, Helsinki and Stockholm, will organise and install an exhibition in Bucharest in January. The council of art and industries of the Board of Trade will, through a subcommittee, select the exhibits. In the same mouth tlie foundation stone will be laid of the British Institute of Bucharest on a site presented by King Carol of Rumania after his last visit to England. The new cultural institute,’ with which the British Council is concerned, will provide a lecture hall, reading-rooms and classrooms for pupils studying the English langage. There are similar institutes in Paris, Florence, and Athens.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 220, 17 August 1939, Page 9
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