30 JULY 1937, Page 6

On Monday, when the Duchess of Kent was driving with

her two children to the coast, her car collided with another and its windows were broken. No one, fortunately, was so much as scratched. The Times recorded all the relevant facts in a paragraph of four inches. In the Daily Mail the incident required (t) a two-line heading across five columns, (2) 3o inches of descriptive matter, (3) a picture of the Duchess setting out from home, (4) a picture of the Princess Alexandra, (5) a picture of the gate (now and hereafter removed from the category of all ordinary gates) through which the Duchess went into a field to wait for another car, (6) a leading article on " Royal Escape." Which paper is the more likely to turn a patriotic monarchist into a republican ?

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