Challoner Club To Be National Social Centre

By a Staff Reporter With the approval of Cardinal Griffin, Archbishop of Westminster, the Challoner Club this week announces its foundation as a social centre and a centre of Catholic Action for the Catholics, not only of Greater London but of the whole country.
The premises, in Pont Street, S.W., are about 15 minutes from Hyde Park Corner and a few minutes from Knightsbridge or Sloane
Square stations. Buses also stop at Pont Street.
It is intended by the promoters that this shall be much more than
a club. It is hoped to provide a national focal centre for Catholic Action in every sense. Besides all the usual amenities of a club, rooms will be available for Catholic societies to use for their meetings and social ftinctions.
No commercial firm has provided any capital, or has any interest whatsoever in the club. The capital has been privately borrowed, without coriditions being attached, from lenders who haw shared the convictions of the committee.
The annual subscription will be one guinea. for town and country members alike. This is only possible because the committee are confident that membership will be as large as the premises can justify them in accepting. The committee hope for, and in three houses could easily cope with, a national membership of at least ten thousand. A very considerable capital expense has inevitably been incurred, and for this reason it is necessary to charge an entrante fee of two guineas in addition to the annual subscription.
The success of the club will depend on the immediate response, and the committee is relying on massmembership, of both men and women, and especially young people, to make this possible.
All correspondence should be clearly marked "Challoner Club," and addressed to David I. Murphy, 19 Charing Cross Road. London, W.C.2. (phone Whitehall 3841).