The King at Glasgow The King, in his speech at
the opening of the Glasgow Exhibition on Tuesday, very rightly associated the great under- taking specifically with Scotland. It is, of course, an Empire Exhibition, in line with its predecessors at Wembley and elsewhere, but there is essentially a Scottish imprint on it. Scotland has taken its responsibilities as a challenge and responded to it with spirit and success, thanks to the Secretary for Scotland, to Lord Elgin, the architect, Mr. T. S. Tait, and thousands of other collaborators whose names deserve no less honourable mention. Like the Paris Exhibition of last year in many features, it was conspicuously unlike it in being complete in practically every detail on the day of opening. "I see in the Exhibition," said King George, "the symbol of the vitality and initiative on which the continued prosperity of Scotland must rest." The King's own visit, it is worth observing, was symbolic of something else. A public that read in its daily papers on Wednesday of the journey of a dictator in a bullet-proof train, guarded along the route by tens of thousands of soldiers, detectives, black guards and sharpshooters, might learn from the same papers on the same day that the sovereign of the British Commonwealth was spending the night in a sleeping-carriage on a Scottish moor with thirty blue-coated policemen to keep him safe.
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