"CAVALCADE."
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
SIR,—Will you allow me to add two others to Mr. Jennings' reaction to Cavalcade? The first is that of a first-nighter who decried the whole as pure jingoism. The second is my own, which is the exact opposite. I believe that Mr. Noel Coward has attempted to strip off the false patriotism, futility and artificiality of English life during the last thirty years. He has at the same time given his idea of a sublimated patriotism of which the repeated closing words, otherwise meaningless sen- timentalism, are the climax, " greatness, dignity and peace." So far from being a display of jingoism Cavakade, unless I have misunderstood it, is a great contribution to peace-1f must use, though I dislike the word—propaganda. But Mr. Coward has spoken in parables; may I add without presumption, Ile that hath ears to hear, let him hear " ?—I am, Sir, &c.,
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