As to the future of Runnymede, we suggest that the
Govern- ment should turn a prime example of bureaucratic ineptitude to " glorious gain " by a public act of co-operation with those people on both sides of the Atlantic who desire to establish the anniversary of the signing of Magna Charts as a day to be observed by all the English-speaking peoples in all places for all time. Let the King, Lords, and Commons place Runnymede (and Longmead also, if thought advisable) in the bands of five Trustees—the King, the President of the United States of America, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Speaker—" to hold the same in trust for the English-speaking peoples of the British Empire and of the United States of America," &c., &e., &c. That would be an act of imaginative statesmanship which would wipe out at once and for ever all remembrance of the unsuccessful attempt to dispose of Lot 81
