OWING TO THE newspaper strike the Sunday Pictorial had to
wait till last week before taking its revenge on the Archbishop of Canterbury for his remark that the newspaper stories about Princess Margaret and Group Captain Townsend had been a stunt. The Pictorial's main complaint against the Archbishop is that he is out of touch with public opinion and it cites as evidence that a large majority in a Daily Mirror poll disagreed with the Archbishop's views on adultery and divorce. (The Archbishop seems to be dogged by polls. A writer in the twentieth century has apparently taken a private survey and arrived at the conclusion that 'the number of people wishing to be married is greater than the number of Arch- bishops. . . .') It would be a pity if the Pictorial were to start taking its stunts seriously. Its philosophy is obviously what Lord Radcliffe had in mind when he said recently: 'Into the void I seem to see rushing a theory of democracy in which the leaders recognise no higher duty than to try to find out what the public wants and then to see that it gets it— a sort of bungalow populi, bungalow dei theory.'
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