‘Royal Tours Out Of Date9

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30095, 1 April 1963, Page 15

‘Royal Tours Out Of Date 9

(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) LONDON, March 30. The “Daily Herald" yesterday welcomed the Queen home from her Australian tour and commented “and now let us say goodbye to any more of these traditional, longwinded, exhausting and often stuffy Royal progresses.”

Under the heading “Too Long, Too Formal,'’ the independent Labour newspaper said Royal tours were "out of date, put too much strain on the Queen and have a rapidly-diminishing value."

It was easy now for the Queen to pay frequent short visits to any part of the Common wealth and that should be the pattern for the future, it said. The "Daily Herald” concluded: “If the Queen was a more frequent visitor local officialdom might be able to break away from fussy protocol and ridiculous practices like planting trees, flowers and grass overnight specially for the occasion “And they might be able to forget the pompous solemnity that too often makes nonsense of all toe talk about Informality." The "DaMy Express” said that once again the Queen bad carried out a long exacting tour "with the warmth of kinship toot breaks through pomp and formality.”

The "Daily Mail” suggested there was "a changed relationship” now that the Queen was no longer &n--press but the bead of a Com* monweadth. It said: "The Queen dtoukd go as a Monarch performing constitutional duties where she is Sovereign by “She has opened the Canadian Parliament. There is no reason why she should not do the same elsewhere. "Nor is there any reason of time or dirtance why she should not Hve in these countries for a month or two at a time,” toe "Daily Mail” raid. “It would be constitutionally proper tor her to do so —end incidentally reduce toe strain imposed upon her by toe rush and turmoil cf special, managed visits.”