For more than a year, a British Royal Commission has been "investigating" the British press. It has filled volumes of testimony from such witnesses as frayed and fractious Hannen Swaffer, drama critic on the London Daily Herald, and Editor A. P. Wadsworth of the Manchester Guardian. In a long-winded lecture on the behavior of Britain's press lords, Swaffer cracked that his ex-boss, Lord Beaverbrook, said he had "bought the Daily Express in order to obtain influence and not to make money, whereas it had not brought him any influence but it had made a lot of money."
Last week the commission released...
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