GREAT BRITAIN: Regrettable

Last week in Edinburgh, where, stern John Knox once thundered against the impiety of 16th Century non-Presbyterian queens,-some Scots were up to their favorite game of censuring English morals. Their targets: Princess Elizabeth and husband Philip.

The little Free Church of Scotland, strict Highland offshoot of the Church of Scotland, passed a resolution expressing "grief and concern" that the royal couple, in their visit to Paris (TIME, May 24) had indulged in "racing, theater and nightclub dancing on the Lord's Day."

Said the "Wee Free's" resolution: ". . . We believe this is ... repugnant to the most sacred...

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