Art: British Architecture

Last week Winston Churchill revealed one of his post-war aims. Answering a question in Parliament (whose meeting-place is now secret), he told how he expected to restore that Victorian-Gothic pincushion, the House of Commons, whose interior was gutted by seven Nazi bombs (TIME, May 19). Declared the Prime Minister: “I cannot conceive that anyone would wish to make the slightest structural alteration in the House of Commons other than perhaps some improvement in the system of ventilation or some minor readjustments for accommodation in the galleries, not affecting the size, shape and character of the building.”

The whole House, Opposition and all, cheered to the bomb-proofed echo.