It seems a sensible thing from the French point of
view to re-open the Paris Exhibition next year ; a great part of it was only ready this year months after the official opening, and the immensity of the crowds that have been flocking to the Trocadero in the late summer seems to indicate that the attraction is lasting. But next year the Glasgow Exhibition will be a formidable rival ; it is true that its scope is Imperial, not international, but Wembley a few years ago showed what an Imperial Exhibition could be, and Glasgow is producing something larger than Wembley. Signor Mussolini, I see, talks of closing the Italian pavilion at Paris on the ground that with an Italian Exhibition impending in 1941 Paris ought not to encroach on 1938. But I shall be surprised if he does. The Italian pavilion is too good propaganda to be shut down prematurely. The British is to go because the Government will spend no more money on it—which recalls a remark a German friend made to me about the new German motor-roads. " We haven't the money, and we make them," she said. " You have, and you don't" * * * *
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