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The Army Council accordingly communicated their wishes to Buckingham Palace,

and were immediately received by the King. The example spread. Other heads of the great Departments directing operations also wished to pay their tribute to the personal part taken by the King. The Board of Admiralty and the Air Council—and for all we know there may have been other high official bodies—announced their wish at once to visit the King. All were received in turn. We do not suppose that any war fought by the British Empire was ever concluded by a more spontaneous, more graceful, more delightfully unrehearsed, and more thoroughly sincere tribute to the Sovereign.