THE SOVEREIGN IN POLITICS.
It is a striking, illustration of the divinity that doth hedge about a king (writes Mr- H. W. Lucy) that Lord Tweedmouth, in his statement in the JHouse of Lords with respect to the letten addressed to him by the German Emperor, withhold a circumstance that would greatly have strengthened l?is present position. He mentioned that on receipt"of tho missive h© had shown it to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, but he did mot add that he had also submitted it to his Majesty, who saw nothing sinister in the incident, Vir any reaeon why the First Lord of the Admiralty, having in his private capacity received a personal communication from a foreign Sovereign, should not reply in the ordinary course of post. This self-sacrificing reticence is in accordance with the wholesome constitutional lule that forbids tho introduction of the name of the Sovereign into Parliamentary debate or political controversy.
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13105, 2 May 1908, Page 9
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