In Praise of Wales
The National Trust has now collected enough money to save one bit of the Pembrokeshire coast. St. David's Head and Carn Llidi are safe ; but a good sum is needed to complete the scheme and add the southern coast and Skokholm Island to the protected list. A well-known mountaineer, who has climbed the greatest mountains of Switzerland, has just walked along this coast, and adds to a general paean of praise a word about the flowers. He describes them to me as equal to any he had seen in Switzerland. The place is indeed glorious for its birds and its flowers as well as its scenic grandeur. It is singularly empty of inhabitants, but a few people have built houses at such bays as Whitesands, and they will find that their little properties will be immensely enhanced in value. It would be no more than common gratitude on their part to give some of this " unearned increment " to their benefactors, the National Trust. It would be wise as well as generous on their part to contribute handsomely to the funds.
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