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THE Cummings NEWS ANALYSIS DESK The EYE-BROWS or Bevan Brigade

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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- GEOFFREY RING

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THE LOW BROW

ATTLES

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London Express Service

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

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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