I DID NOT see the protest issued by the British
Travel and Holidays Association against the 'lack of facilities' granted to its registered guides at Windsor Castle, where only the resident guides—a handful of ex-Service pensioners—are allowed to show parties of tourists round; but I read with enjoyment the comments on this small issue of Mr. Joseph Newman, the well-informed London correspondent of the New York Herald Tribune. In the denial to the public of adequate facilities for appreciating the historical and other aspects of Windsor Castle, Mr. Newman discerns the 'last and nearly extinct embers of conflict between the Crown and the people.' The Crown, he says in a closely reasoned article, 'which treasures the few rights left to it by the state, is resisting current attempts by the public to make further inroads upon its sovereignty.' It would be difficult to find a better example of a shrewd observer from a young Republic, bidden to anatomize an old Monarchy, adding two and two together, arriving at a total of four, and getting the wrong answer.
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