TRAVEL MUST BE BOTH WAYS
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
SIR,--I was very glad to read Mr. Wrinch's letter in your current issue uphOlding the arguments in Colonel Hutehison's letter of January 9th. The question of the coming summer holiday is in many people's minds, and they are wondering whether their patriotism must keep them in their own country. Now the holiday resorts of . England and Scotland and Wales in the summer months are always crowded, and the charges high. If the thousands who usually cross the Channel try to find accommodation at home, the crowding will be worse and the chaigc exorbitant. The weekly wage-earners who in recent years have been taking their families to the seaside will find it Impossible, and many people's holidays will he spoilt.
On the other hand, is it fair to a friendly Continental country, like . Switzerland, to boycott. its Main source of - revenue, when thousands of us owe it more than we can
express in the way of health and happiness ? -I-write feelingly, as an Alpinist- of nearly thirty seasons,jand some ina3t V&A( that " the wish is father to the thought ; but I believe, with Colonel Hutchison, that " It is not good for Britain's prestige that her citizens should disappear from international resorts on the Continent."—I- am, Sit, &c., J. F. MEDLEY..
St. Mark's Vicarage, C«mbridge.
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