Recently, wo believe, the Daily Herald (the occasion being the
King's visit to Belfast) revived the legend in a leader, and therefore the correction was issued. One would have thought that anyone of ordinary intelligence who heard the story, and still more anyone who thought of setting it down in print, must at once have seen that the whole thing was moonshine. Anyone who knows Lord Carson must have known that the idea of his " calling round " at Buckingham Palace with a verbal shillelagh to threaten the King or his Private Secretary or anyone else is unthinkable. After all, he was not quite " the young man from the country " in 1914. Sir Edward was far more likely to have said to the Cabinet : " If you say we, the leaders, are doing things morally and legally wrong, why do you not arrest us and put us on our trial ? Go for us, not for our supporters." Sic notes
