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—Yugoslavs also attributed to His Majesty the following "cocktail" which they said he was known to have personally invented, mixed and shaken aboard the Nahlin: two jiggers each of gin, Dalmatian chartreuse and Dalmatian champagne, dash of lime juice, teaspoonful of sugar, strip of lemon peel, one olive, ice. In Washington, D. C. this was taken seriously enough for the Mayflower Hotel's Barman Jack Williams to mix it with authentic chartreuse and champagne. Reported a "United Pressman: "It tastes like an empty lard can . . . has an unsavory green color. . . . That cocktail of the King is the world's worst." As would naturally occur in shaking an effervescent beverage like champagne, the shaker blew up in the Mayflower barman's face, caused him to affirm: "I guess the King didn't shake champagne in a closed shaker, no matter what the cables say." Snorted less obliging U. S. barmen when asked for a "King Edward Cocktail," "That's no cocktail, that's a punch—with fruit salad!"