Mean to the Queen is what Britain's press will let no man be. And when the offender is German, the offense is worse: the British are currently in the mood of resenting the fact that in a Berlin crisis it would be Germans they were fighting to save. All this was behind a Fleet Street tizzy last week. The press had found a West German election cartoon showing Queen Elizabeth II simpering happily at a granite-faced but visionary Chancellor Konrad Adenauer (.see cut) under the legend: "Partners of the Free World."
Huffed London's Daily Sketch: "It is believed that never...
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