15 OCTOBER 1921, Page 3

Lord Dawson is as strongly against selfish suppression as ho

is for wise control. In fact, he has had the courage to say what so many men and women have long come to believe. But remember always that children are the best things in the world, and that the sacrifices they demand are the well-springs of true happiness. Elizabeth's cry : "The Queen of Scots has a brave son and I am but a barren stock," has in it the supreme tragic note. So, too, the agonized scorn of Constance at the Cardinal's consolations on the loss of Prince Arthur : " He speaks to ESC who never had a son."