Opinions regarding Princess Elizabeth's broadcast seem to be unanimous. One
professional critic, I see, speaks of the Princess as " the most outstanding child radio personality I've yet heard." I should not have put it quite that high myself, but it was an excellent performance, a clear and natural delivery being achieved without any shade of the assurance which would be out of place in a child of fourteen. It can hardly be sup- posed that the speech itself was composed entirely without assistance, but no word of it was out of keeping, and the " Come on, Margaret " to the speaker's sister at the end was a touch of nature that came near being a touch of genius. And when the Princess declared that the future of the world rested with the children of today it was worth remembering that it was the next sovereign of these realms who was speaking.
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