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AMBURIN BEVÁN
It may seem impossible to sori out who's who in the Bevanito.
Allee wrangle....but really it is only a matter of separating The Low-Brows (who are Attlee man) from The Eye-Brows (who
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WHAT are the thoughts of the Sovereign on Coronation Day? An extract from the 1911 diary of King George V, In' a book just published", είνος an' answor which is a part of history and, pos- sibly, an insight into the mind of- Queen Elizabeth on her Coronation Day next year.
་
'MAY AND I
LEFT B.P.
AT 10.30...
TZING
K
V
GEORGE headed the entry in
his diary: "Thursday, June 22. Our Coronation Day, Buckingham Palace." He wrote:
Today was indeed a great and memorable day in our lives and one we can never forget, but it brought back to me many sad memories of mine years ago, when
the beloved Parents were crowned.
May and I left B.P. in the Coronation coach at 10.30 with eight cream-coloured horses. There were over 30,000 troops
YOUNG MEN ARE FEW
IN THE
AM writing this from an hotel room in
HIGHLANDS
+ flowers, but the Highland Scot lives in granite and takes on lis
Dornoch, which means - Off on a motoring holiday to Scotland with unyielding character.
that we are a long way
→→→→BEVERLEY BAXTER, M.P.++++
from London. As Parlia- +++ ment had risen for the long
train in the old coaching days, which who broadened the horizon
of
Yet they are proudly courte- ous to the stranger, and their voices are richly musical. The girls are drably dressed but are not untidy, and their faces, in- nocent
of make-up, have a comely beauty that is
to see. That old devil-rain."",
A terrible ordeal
By GEORGE SCOTT ning the streets under the command of Lord Kitchener.
of
There were hundreds thousands of
of people who gave us a magnificent reception. The service in the Abbey was most beautiful but it was a terrible ordeal.
It was grund, yet simple and most dignified and went with- out a hitch. I nearly
down when dear David (now Duke of Windsor] came to do. homage to me as it reminded me so much when I did the same thing to beloved Papa, he did it so well,
Darling May, looked lovely, and it was indeed a comfort to me to have her by my side, as abe has been ever to me during these last 18 years.
bate ranged over a wide ter- would be in Domoch before salty tired chicken. I don't is the hurry? Scoliand can wait of New York or Paris look like and scopires in our hands, p
so
painted ghosts.
scas.
recess, it became impera- annihilates distance, a tive for the Baxter family avoids towns and carries you shows that we are progressing. the human mind? That, how
in the Abbey-" ordeal.” to decide where it would go comfortably through the rolling It was a pleasant Inn, with ever, is the curse of motoring,
you surrender your soul to the is no mean beauty specialist. for a holiday, and the de- countryside. "Why not take an an old cemetery opposite in a
We left Westminster Abbey at overnight sleeper?" I asked. "We lovely
churchyard, and we were internal combustion engine and The skin of a Highland lassie 2.15
there (having arrived with Thot English become a stave of speed. What would make the young women before 11) with our crowns on ritory.
lunch. And, anyway, what do you know about Dornoch? In know what makes chickens So can Sir David Robertson. Yet
On reaching B.P. just before The natural tendency of all these years we have been red in England. They look and we hurl ourselves past Carlyle,
3, May and I went out on Britishers is to get off the married I have never known taste like rather tender wood. having seen no more than a sign
Even as you gaze upon the the balcony to show ourselves that he was born scene, you realise the human to the people. Had some lunch island and seek adventure you to express any longing for But the cheese was good, which telling us
tragedy of the Highlands. For with our guests here. on the Continent but Mr Dornoch. In fact, I do not be is no wonder, because we had there.
generation after generation, the lleve that there is such a place. Just passed through the ancient
The same thing happened at
Worked all the afternoon with Butler, our Chancellor of
town of Stilton.
seeking a larger Bigge the Scottish Border. Here was young men,
life.
(his private secretary, the Exchequer, is not in "It's right at the top of Scot-
have gone away across the later Lord Gretna Green, that 'waysido
Stamfordham) ond land."
They have become hus-others angwering telegrams and favour of that. He decided
said my wife, as if that That night, having shaken off
runaway bands and fathers in settled the matter.
every Jellers. that £25 would be the limit been at the bottom of Scotland, hotel where we had a very mixed Marriage parlour, or words to
If it had the lorries, we made good time shrine dedicated to
marringen. There was a neat country in the world, while the and put up at a lovely country
Our guests dined with us at sign on
white shed, marked that any of us could take or in the middle, or on either Brand
girls they would have married 9.30. May and I showed our if we crossed the Channel alde, she would no doubt have grill for dinner. How so many that effect. But did we pause? the children
work in the mills and dream of gives again to the people. opposing
they will never Wrote and read. Rather tired. a proposition which has a been willing to discuss the mat- ingredients of such
should As a good journalist I ter. But as it was right at character could all taste exactly
Bed at 11.45. strongly deterrent effect ex- the top, there was nothing more alike is a secret known only to
have got out and married my wife again, despite the fact that cept for those patient souls to be said.
English cooks.
we might not look like runaway who are willing to travel in
"You will
find the cooking lovers, Instead, we went past a coach with
very much better in Scotland at forty miles an hour as if we conducted tour.
said my wife. "They understand had a rendezvous with the clans. food better north of the Border."
In bed that night I read Oscar even it seemed to have lost its Wilde's "De Profundis," but
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GLENEAGLES
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In
the long against
WAYS
Cruel
How the Red Dean became a dean
W of Canterbury, Dr Hewlett WHO first set the Red Denn
to high
Johnson, on the road office in the Church?
England the Scots died in their thousands and tens of thousands. In the wars against Napoleon. the Kaiser and Hitler, they sent the flower of their manhood to My son and daughter, solved So,
10, on Wednesday morning, our
be cut down by the their problem by receiving an garage, gorged with petrol and car was backed out of the
scythe of battle. Invitation from a French family carrying enough suitcases
There are
old people, there in Brittany. However, it did last us for six months. I have
THAT night we put up at the
luxurious - Gleneagles -Hotel,--are young women and there are nothing to solve the problem of never understood the mystery of
Mr Ramsay MacDonald has which is owned by the nation- children in the Highlands, but usually been given the respon- my wife and myself.
Now, let us put away OUT women's clothes. When worn grumblings and admit that mo- alised British Railways. It has the young men are few,
sibility24 when Dr. John503-
He was Prime Minister Then Madam took the situa- they appear to weigh
few toring across
two golf courses, the Yorkshire
Dornoch Is a heavenly spot after 16 tion in hand. "Let's motor
fountain when packed for Moors, as
courtyard there is ounces, but to
we did next day, is that splashes day and night so set by the blue waters of the
years as a Cheshire Scotland,"
take up as much something to stir the jaded pulse that if it is not raining it sounds she maid.
travel- they
vicar "You are
Dornoch
made Firth, with
Dean of grand plano us 1
gentle Was always arguing with the Scots room
end Invigorate the mort sluggish as if it is.
Manchester, waves laving the sandy shore. Minister, too, in 1831 when Dr He was Prime ever Home Rule, or the Stone of weigh rather more.
Imagination. England is such a
Between the water and the Destiny, or whether the Queen
litle country, and yet it can
Johnson There are no tired chickens at hotel is a golf course, which
was appointed · Dean create a sense of vast loneliness Gleneagles and not even
Canterbury the touches perfection and humbles
But the new book about King the desert or the suggestion of a mixed grill. the vanity of man, cater than
gives the names of The chef is a poet, an artist, a
others who had a hand in that 1024
appointment.
First
and
N
and
about
shail be called Elizabeth the However, there la an HITL-
exhilaration doubted or Second why not go taking to the
open road. It see the Scots in their own brings
beck the days of the setting? After all, your Father's Stage Coach, when travellers people came from Stirling, and put in at a wayside inn for a my Mother was descended from the MacBoths and the MacIn- merry meal served by a beam- ing host, with pretty maids fut tering about, and good brown ale to wash it down,
toshes."
IRRESISTIBLE
WE still arguing the out of London and get on
MDSS.
me."
own
Alps.
THERE'S MAGIC
and in the
dreamer, The walters aro
of
the
MIDNIGHT SUN
of
George
roaring cataract of water previous dean.
are as white and
Of
Dr
by
Tiarold
courtiers at the Palace of Sans
Lord Stamfordham, the King's Souci. It is a brave man who
private dines there without changing
AVID Robertson has us out MacDonald and
secretary, wrote to Mr OR miles on end the only in into
to the Arch- a dinner jacket, and the habitants to be seen were the wines are the perfect progeny morning and rus
on the links at nine in the bishop of
of Canterbury rushes us off in Randall Davidson, giving a list Dr shoep grazing on the moors.
of the sun and the grape,
his car in the afternoon to sea a of
possible successorn to the "This is fun," I said, "or at. Here and there we would come
Only one shadow darkens the upon a shepherd's hut, but we least it will be, when we are
salmon tesping in the air WE were
"WHOLLY SUITABLE' brighiness of nover saw
this paradise. mined to thwart the anger of the shepherd. the over
This
Lord Stamfordham between two the falls.
told the matter when I ran into Sir Great North Road."
was the setting that drew forh Gleneagles is set
Or he will take us archbishop the Prime Minister David Robertson, who is the
the sombre
genius of the ranges of hills, and when the to
suggest Dr John- Tory MP. for Caithness, and
The Great North Road! Thero Broates. The great grim sloping clouds hang low there is ruin. bighland Games, or the would like
sheep sale. At night be son, "If there were no other It is the one topic of conversa- told him of our dilemma. Now, is magic in the words. The Moors, with their halos of mist,
wears the kilt and leaps into tion among
candidate." that was a mistake. Sir David Romane marched on it when made us feel that in our car we
the golfers.
special The the air with barbarie cries as he last words spoken at night are: dances the reels.
The
archbishop consuited Willam Templates to become is the irresistible force which they went in their conquering had invaded nature's forbidden "Will it rain
then Bishop rofuses to recognise even the civilisation mission. I always temple and that at any moment only answer tomorrow?" The
ly the
of Manchester We are so far north that it is existence of the immovable wondered why they stopped at the Storm Gods would turn
in
splashing
almost the land of the midnight fountain in the courtyard.
Canterbury), the borders of Yorkshire and fury upon us,
It
when we sun. Daylight lasts untu nearly Temple," the book says "thought.
Both went no
the archbishop and Dr was drizzling "You will come to Dornoch, understand. In the far off years, not far ahead, and there
further, but now I But the Scottish border was left next morning, but heavy eleven o'clock
at night, when the Prime Minister's candidate he said, "Leave everything to the English
was clouds were converging. How England is in darkness of eight. built their roads
wholly suitable, wo shook them off and The clouds ever, on the ag- magle in the thought. One may
poon we had entered the land full as if Constable had painted Dr Johnson: "He always carries Archbishop Davidson wrote of sumption that it was for one way dispute with the Scots, in fact
Highlands Hour by hour, day by day, we traffle only. It never seemed to it is impossible to do anything magic-the
of them but forgot to take weight with thoughtful people." received running instructions
Scotland.
Is there in all the away, ALE from him on the telephone. Road to them that somebody else, but there is magic in
world such a
a feast of colour
• King George V might want to return. or very word "Scotiand."
On Sunday we went to church Nicolson (Constable 4). maps arrived with everything
Is there any country whose until the senses are anvished by the minister. Next day on the purple, heard a doughty sermon by ink that a horse and cart might even
green and underlined, outlined and over intend to travel south. lined.
A doublo room would
cons have been rewarded so their beauty! Mountain streams bo waiting for us at
ttle at home and have given so rush
their
sun way: white golf course,
cind flirt with the clerical garb, he cured my wife's much to the outside world? One billowing clouds does not expect gratitude from noon day sun; black-faced sheep alice and is going to partner have a car which can do 90 Russia, yet even the Boktheviks nibble the grass with complete her in Saturday's two-ball your
Bornes. be reserved at Gleneages for miles an hour on a good road it.
might
Scots disdain for the passing car; the remember that
be the second night. At 7 p.m. he no one is looking. It would be soldiers fought for Ivan The lonely cottage smuggica against would moet us at the Dornoch fun to, open the throttle and Terrible in the 10th Century and the hillside. Hotel, where he and his wife let her rip. But I had not al-
helped him to put down were staying. All we had to do lowed for what we call lorries traitors at home and enemies HUMAN TRAGEDY was to get garage and start from London to trucks. On the morning of our who did so much to civilke the fought in the Highlands. Wo
Well, that is all I have to the car out of our and which North Americans call abroad. There were four Soota at the Court of Peter the Great
reat PLOODY battles have been significance in my tale, neither tell you. There is no political the North.
departure it seemed that every
is there a moral. By that time I was of no more lorry in England had decided to Muscovites that one of them was
But when feld, where Autumn comes to London and called "Father
passed Culloden of Rusalon unportance than An innocent 20 North.
stained the the gray sodden skits rest al- Science'; and another, named cruel Cumberland after Ume spectator in a gangster raid. All
Time
We
passed
most upon the roofs of authority had passed from
street named after of England, the nose of our car sut, Bruce, had my
which Bannockburn, him hands to this Celtic combination them, but all we did was to gain the absurd idea of passing
in Moscow, But I anticipate. We are still kind. But there is no magic it yellow gorge and purple heather,
spreads
its magic upon manus, my mind will return 10 the Highlands, with fta a hundred yards or so and then in Yorkshire, although the for- the on settle down
are hard, and I will hear again behind some more ties have long since disappeared intovel which point of possiblo disagreement
things. You. by pointing out to Mrs Baxter lorries. Finally we got behind and the car is doing a consistent
see no flowers In the enchantment of the Scottish voice with Hte musle and cadence door. Not only is life hard in
such an hotel in Bandalye
such and
Similar accommodation would
on the first night of our
of David and my wife. I did, however, venture to raise
Doko
with
LORRIES
WD
would
on
in
Next Sunday there will
no golf and he will warn us again of the evil in men's hearts and the need to live a clean and upright life.
that of all forms of transporth one that was slightly larger than: 60 miles an hour as we make for windows ́OF TORCH round the and argumentativeness.
Ulon, beyond a short distance, a house and stayed there until we the Border,
knocked off at Stamford motoring is the most disagree
lunch.
eble,
for
the
We pass Carlyle's birthplace the Highlands but I suspect And in my minuta eye I shall which is, of course, ridiculous. that the Scot is proud of it and are granite villages, with their Wo had travelled 87 milles In Why not stop and have a look at will not dissemble. There is memories, their grim courage, A ship is a travelling luxury four hours on the open rond, the house that ushered into the handly a cottage in the Austrian and their solitude it in th hotel, an aeroplane is duil but which was slightly better than world that cantankerous genius Alps that is not" tustered with hilis,
ALAHTIY
"Have nothing to do with that corrupt camel- driver, elendi? - from me, you hire beautifuZ:: tank and travel. in