News of the Week
THE statement of the doctors that there are " increasingly solid grounds " for hoping for the King's recovery has brought a sensible, though by no means final, relief to the long anxiety of the nation. Any relaxation brings with it some conception of what the strain has been, and the nation, looking back on the illness, sees that His Majesty has been as near death as anyone who survives can possibly have been. His improvement is as wonderful a recovery, so far as it has gone, as that of his father from typhoid fever when he was a young man. If the "people -did :not already know how grim and painful the struggle has been, they -would find a startling revelation of it in the review of the illness which His Majesty's doctors have communicated to the medical Press. The surmounting of the most dangerous phases was undoubtedly helped by the King's pluck, and -the nation in watching the continuing struggle feels that it has a reason after its own-heart for adding to its admiration of His Majesty.
