In connexion with Mr. Strachey's interesting article last week concerning
the future of Wembley, in which he advocated the holding of an English-Speaking World Exhibition in some future year, it is interesting to note that Mr. Albert E. MacKinnon, one of the American representatives now in London attending the Advertising Convention, suggests that the British Empire Ekhibition should be transported to the United States and sent on tour throughout that country. In an article in the Daily Express he says :- "The fundamental principle of your wonderful Exhibition is to stimulate trade, and my scheme is simply to further that principle. Every newspaper throughout the United States has by now given publicity to Wembley, and there is a splendid opportunity to crystallize that publicity by moving Wembley to America. The whole of the Exhibition could not, of course, be transported, but replicas or miniatures of its chief features could be sent to us. If the Queen's dolls' house, for instance, could be sent over as one of the -features of the exhibition it would earn thousands of pounds for• British charities. America has been made by its railways more than any other country in the world, and if George Stephenion's locomotive, now at Wembley, could be shown in America, they would pi:, crazy about it."
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