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real dignity [[strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough]] and beauty of Exterior London is really lost in a wilderness of senseless decorations and illuminations costing millions of pounds.

The Apache Indians or Groose[[Grosse]] Pointe frenchmen could not conceive more unbeautiful things. The English officials having so often been told through the American and French press of their artistic shortcomings have proved it all, not only in abandoning the whole work themselves, but by what is still worse, entrusting it to the Italians!! So the lovely architecture of Sir Christopher Wrenn [[Wren]] and others is now buried under the tinsel gew gaws [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] of a degenerate Florentine and faced with the raw mill products of the southern states and the forests of Norway. In all cross streets leading into the direct route of march the ugliest of great rough timber barricades have been built to prevent English people from crowding each other to death. What a reflection upon the best police force in the worlds and what an insult to the most capable self-protecting - world-civilizing nation on the globe. It's horrible