The King in South Wales The King's visit to South
Wales next Month will Seivea , - valuable purpose if it concentrates public attention once more on the depressed areas. King Edward has shown himself consistently sensitive to the conditions in which some of his subjects live ; his tour of South Wales will try that sensitiveness to the utmost, but, perhaps he will think himself rewarded by the loyalty and affection he will find in an area too often misdescribed as a hot- bed of Communism. In making this visit he has shown himself more aware of the suffering and poverty which exists in South Wales than many who should be actively concerned with the problem ; there is no part' of the Government's electoral programme which has more conspicuously failed of fulffiment than its promises' to relieve the unemployment problem' as it exists in the depressed areas. In the rest of the country that problem may be said to have been solved ;- hut the prosperity whichthe country 'now enjoys only increases, by contrast, the despair which rules in' South Wales and other areas. The King 'by -his visit can do much to show that the areas -in- which unemployment is now concentrated are not, as they with some justice fear, forgotten.
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