When, during the visit of Princess Margaret to Canterbury a'
few weeks ago, a photograph was published showing the Princess shaking hands with the Dean there was some criticism of the Princess's trafficking with this Red dignitary. The criticism was completely beside the mark. The Dean, of course, is the official in charge of the cathedral which Princess Margaret was visiting, and he was presented to her by the Archbishop, who has so far not assumed a noticeably scarlet tinge himself ; what would have raised criticism general and just would have been any refusal on the Princess's part to meet Dr. Hewlett Johnson. But now comes a strange sequel. In Vienna, so the Daily Herald correspondent there states, the Communists posted up a copy of the photograph as representing the Princess shaking hands with the Red Dean after she had signed the Communist Peace Manifesto. You can say, of course, if you like, that that is what comes of a Princess shaking hands with a Communist Dean. Why not say, while you are about it, that that is what comes of a Princess existing at all ? • * * *
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