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7, AUDLEY SQUARE, W.l.

[con]stitutional Monarch and should be adjusted with his Ministers: or likewise
that his holidays will be those of a King and not of the Heir Apparent.
His duties now include patronage and appointment. His assent,
if not his advice, will be taken on a hundred and one grave subjects.
Hitherto he has been kept informed; but in future he will have to accept
or at least to share responsibility: and finally, the routine and
exacting labours of audiences, signatures and so on will prove irksome.
So he finds himself a little non-plussed that his freedom should be so
much curtailed. I believe he has expressed a view that his next holiday
would take place in France, as usual, but that he has heard the French
Police, who have left him alone pretty much hitherto, have no intention
of being so easygoing in the future. I need hardly add that everybody
profoundly hopes that he will shed some of his tiresome and very second
rate friends, who we tolerated while they could exercise no influence
upon public affairs; but now, where patronage has got to be exercised,
any intervention on their part, even if only an allegation, would be
bitterly resented.

I think people are glad that Ramsay Macdonald has been returned,
though the experiment was very risky, and the reactions upon
University representation may be serious later on. However, your old
constituents seem to have kept cool, and I rejoice that one of the candidates
should have to forfeit his election deposit. Macdonald seems
to become more quiet and retiring, but I believe he still occupies a

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