GREAT BRITAIN: Australian Blunderbuss

Thwarted, humiliated as never before was George V, King & Emperor, Defender of the Faith last week. Not since his grandmother Queen Victoria wrote her anonymous letter to the London Times has a British sovereign evinced such intense displeasure.* Again last week the Times served as vox Regis, spoke for the Crown words which set every Briton of birth and breeding a-bristle with indignation. It all began at Australia House. Situated in the heart of London this outpost contains Maj. General Hon. Sir Granville de Laune Ryrie, High Commissioner in Great Britain...

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