[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
Sm,—Your contributor B.E.T. deserves much sympathy. After suffering posters and sparing the lives of bill-stickers, he finds his magnanimity misplaced : the R.A.C. is deliberately making things easier for visitors to England, when we all know that what we want is to keep the country to ourselves and discourage tiresome trippers and tourists. But what could one expect from a club that caters to motor car owners, who do so much to besmirch the beauty of rural England ?
Is it too late, Sir, to make a stand against this vulgar publicity ? Could we not send our prospective American visitors to the devil ? Who wants to know the names of villages ? Let us abolish the names of streets as well. Travelling in England would then become a nice, mild, cheap adventure and it would not be necessary to go abroad to get lost. Let us make England a close preserve for the really cultured. Then as we became poorer and more exclusive, manufacturers, merchants, and other blots on the landscape would tend to disappear and we might return to the merry England of the Middle Ages.—I am, Sir, &c., AN AESTHETE.
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