¶ WThen the King's name was dragged into Washington's Senatorial munitions exposé, the only London paper to carry a full story and mention George V without pussyfooting was the Conservative Morning Post, a newsorgan extremely close to Buckingham Palace.
Most other British papers referred to "a higher personage" or to "The Crown." Stoutly the Morning Post headlined UNITED STATES INQUIRY CANARD, suppressed no detail, contemptuously observed, "We publish this incredible story as illustrating the sort of evidence which was thought good enough for a Senatorial enquiry."
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