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[A. Hardinge]

Private and Personal

Buckingham Palace SW1

15 October 1936

My dear Lord Tweedsmuir

You will, I feel sure, be aware that
[illegible] the surface of a loyal Press there is in this country a growing volume of
criticism of the King's domestic affairs which I am much afraid
will one day break its [illegible]. So far 'Cavalcade', the offshoot of
the American 'Time', is the only paper which has spoken pretty
plainly in this country and its circulation is fortunately limited
though increasing rapidly in this account. With the American papers,
on the other hand, it is quite different, and the articles which
we see, though they say very little that is without justification
appal one by the outspokenness with which they are dragging
the name of the King of England in the mud. I am told that
these articles are finding their way, in increasing numbers, across