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Even in the freespoken atmosphere of Hyde Park such things are seldom said of a reigning monarch. Appearing last week in a respectable if small journal of opinion, the National and English Review, under the byline of its young editor Lord Altrincham, a peer of the realm and a Tory, they evoked a howl of indignant response all over the nation. "Lord Altrincham's attack is vulgar," cried Lord Beaverbrook's Tory Daily Express. "Being muddleheaded, it is destructive." "Disgraceful," complained the League of Empire Loyalists. "Altrincham ought to be shot," groused the Duke of Argyll...
Some weeks ago Lord Altrincham discovered that one of his own cherished institutions was not all that it seemed to be. The Victoria League, whose finances he helps to manage, was founded in 1901 for the purpose of promoting friendly relations between the varicolored peoples under the British Crown. Throughout...
...where young people of all colors and races mix freely. But at the league's London youth hostel, when a Negro student shows up to ask for a room, the answer is. invariably, "Sorry, we're full up." Last week, shocked to discover this discrimination policy, Lord Altrincham resigned. "One of the reasons that you have given me for maintaining this iniquitous state of affairs," he said in a bitter letter to League Chairman Admiral Sir Cecil Harcourt, "is that you do not want to alienate the South Africans. Instead of setting an example, we are allowing ourselves...
...Lord Offside? Lord Altrincham's indignation was the greater because, he wrote, "The Queen and the Queen Mother are patrons of the league, and Princess Alice is its president." To drag in royalty this way, commented the admiral, is "a pretty rotten thing. Definitely offside...
...week's end, however, an irate group of league hostel residents, including five South Africans, rallied to Lord Altrincham's side. "This," said young Lord Altrincham, "demonstrates the fine free new spirit of the Commonwealth...