13 JULY 1934, Page 18

FASCISM AND THE CROWN [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.]

SIR, Mr. Douglas Goldring has misunderstood my letter. I hope that your readers have not formed the impression upon which he endeavours to lay stress, that my reference to the present limited functions of the Crown was in any way " insulting." I did not intend, either, to give the impression that Fascism intended to set up an absolute monarchy. That is not one of the aims of the British Union of Fascists. I agree with Mr. Goldring that the Crown should be above party politics. I do not, however, like to contemplate the Crown being set aside from party politics—or from affairs of State. It is that which I fear from England's " political evolution as a modern democratic State."—I am, Sir, &c.,