It is strange how much we miss the King and Queen, 'They are ofter away from London for several weeks. 'They not infrequently' seem somewhat eclipsed by other Royalties, at Yeast in the picture pages. "And there fare some people even yet who have hardly realized that they are the King and Queen and, in defiance of fact and reason, have an _ierepressible feeling thai anything so. monstrous fas the abdication can never really have happened. And yet with their Majesties so far away, there is an odd Sense of incompleteness in everything, dnd the London season turns round With the aimlessness of a squirrel in partly Commons on Wednest the Minister of Health, the complicated details of the Government evacuation scheme. One Doint he. stressed was that private Serangements for billeting children frould, if the Ministry thought A, be Gverridden, Te other words: an elier= tody. living in Berkshie, whom T ffnow, eho has 15 small leses and rphves in London, and howe able tovaecommodate. just that number, might be. informed by" some jacko tapes (font. Whitehall that she inst take them but must take a Crowd of children she had never seen. Tins regulation appears to. be. some obscure concession to the Socialist eertsiniy seems hard and unreason able, since it is by no means only ihe rich win fave. celatives. inthe country with whom they might pice heir Brats, However, i€ the mothers can't let their children go, the Government regulations wil have served {helene in Whitehall purpose bit to give employment to means to the British people, partly faz evidence that the King himself, as man being, bet er deeply into his subjects? way a speetacu brilliant " but erratic brother. but. without disparaging the latter, he will make a far better King. When King Jobs to be Filled Apropos of that, what a Jot of money Is wasted in circularizing people about things they surely must Know already. The post is perpetually bringing us leaflets, some on the
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