* * * * As to the constitution, it is
generally agreed that there will be no innovations. The new King is known to be under no temptation to exercise any personal power and will accept in letter and in spirit the advice tendered him by his Ministers. It may be, however, that there will be a more intimate relationship between Crown and Cabinet. King Edward, despite his experience at the front, is essentially a post-War young man, and one by one the great offices of State are being filled by post- War young men too. There is a real gap between the men who were brought up in the long peace that lasted practically from Waterloo to 1914 and those who spent their early manhood in a world rocking and shaking in the convulsions of the Great War. The King will be united in thought and outlook to his Ministers as no king has been united before, by the bond of that dreadful experi- ence.
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