Welsh Journals

give a damn for Welsh national- ism, which is as insignificant and yet regionally important as the segregation issue in Alabama or the viability of the Grimaldi secession in Monaco. (I think the Kelly girl's brat and your new Prince of Wales are jokily equal, poor brutes, from the democratic remove of this beach). You'll be amused, though, to see in an In and Out game in the 25th anniversary issue of Esquire that Welsh nationalism is 'in'. So that makes you 'u', if that's any consolation. But I loved the photo of the Welsh mum and spindly daughter in the fuzzy pix of doomed Tryweryn and Capel Celyn near Bala, felt the gritty wetness of the atmosphere, which fitted well with yesterday's fogs which San Francisco blew down on us to prevent us from feeling too smog about our particularly enchanted (climate-wise) area. Rhys Davies-he's a Master, and that's rare. I shall carry the chuckles of Ianto's funeral into my own grave. But he could have done better with his autobiographical sketch, and it's rather sad that he happens to single out as highlights the only two items which I've always remembered about him-his meeting D. H. Lawrence and the Black brothers putting on a flop version of Jennie Jones. I thought he had richer things to remember (though DHL cannot be denigrated). I long to hear news of dark London, and the terrible frustra- tions among the proles that fire up into nasty outbreaks like the Negro riots in Notting Hill. What chips all these people have, what resentments. Time we had a new Welsh Prime Minister to blow a bit of misty poetry into the ugly brute existences around Rotting Hill. Yet Roy Campbell and blinded Percy Wyndham Lewis lived there. Come over some time. You can always sleep on the couch in my workroom beside the friendly Pacific. Park Place Versus the People WITH THE ESTABLISHING by the Independent Television Authority of a Wales and West of England office in Park Chambers, Cardiff, in the charge of Lyn Evans, who used to edit the dropped and lamented Welsh Edition of the News Chronicle, Park Place more than ever qualifies as the Home of the Establishment and its advisory councils, panels and committees. It also houses the WALES con- trollers, directors and chief