SUNDAY, DECEMBER Dm
(To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—No man can more entirely admire and acclaim than I do, as illustrious representatives of glorious France, Marshal Foch and M. Clemenceau. They deserve all the homage of welcome which England can give them. But I am sure I am not alone in - my grave regret that Sunday was the chosen day for their recep- tion. Perhaps the choice (a choice, I think, almost or quite without precedent) was dictated by some urgency in the need for consultation between our Government and them. That would modify the conditions; but, if so, it should have been intimated. Otherwise, why not make Monday the day? Many. English people who would not go my Puritan length in Sunday observance do still assuredly think that the advancing assimilation in this country of the Christian sacred day to other days means a great and far- reaching moral loss. It impairs and obscures more and more an immemorial and ever-recurring memento of the higher and
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