[lit-ideas] Re: A Photo Worth Every Penny
- From: Ursula Stange <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 16:18:09 -0400
I spent way too much time reading the comments after this article.
Elizabeth is still Canada's queen and I've long thought it was bunk --
both the cost and the adulation (She actually visited our campus once..I
think...I was out of town.) Among the comments, this struck me
particularly....good words in a good row can be so persuasive, eh?
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In the words of a former Scots Prime Minister 'The Queen’s appearances
abroad do more in a day to gain goodwill for Britain than all the
politicians and diplomats lumped together could achieve in years.'
Sir Alec Douglas-Home (Prime Minister 1963-64).
And in the words of two Irishmen, from different sides of the border:
'If constitutional monarchy were to come to an end in Britain,
parliamentary democracy would probably not survive it. It is, after all,
through the monarchy that parliamentary control over the armed forces is
mediated and maintained.'
Conor Cruise O’Brien, The Independent, 25th June 1993.
'Monarchy can easily be debunked, but watch the faces, mark well the
debunkers. These are the men whose taproot in Eden has been cut: whom no
rumour of the polyphony, the dance, can reach - men to whom pebbles laid
in a row are more beautiful than an arch. Yet even if they desire mere
equality they cannot reach it. Where men are forbidden to honour a king
they honour millionaires, athletes or film stars instead: even famous
prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will
be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.'
C S Lewis.
David Ritchie wrote:
The Royals cost 62 p per year. I think they need a charitable
foundation. Send all contributions to the Royal Society for Prevention
of Insolvency to Royals (RSPIR), 37 Millionquid Lane, Darling-on-Suite
Speah Castle, Hunts, ER2 UR2, U.K.
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=946582006
David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon
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