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President Coolidge sent a cable: "His Majesty, George V, Buckingham Palace, London-I am greatly pleased to learn of the distinct improvement of Your Majesty's health and trust that your complete convalescence will now be but a matter of a short time.-Calvin Coolidge...
...Court at Buckingham Palace, fourth day of December...
...consultants. Sir Stanley Hewett was said to have called in Sir E. Farquhar Buzzard, and Lord Dawson was believed to have summoned Sir Humphry Rolleston. Presently these names were added to the signatures appearing beneath each bulletin displayed in every post office throughout Great Britain. To post up the Buckingham Palace bulletin not typewriter script, but inch-high black lettering was used...
...foundered merchant ships or perished in the many flooded areas of the Rhineland, Holland, Belgium, Ireland, Wales and England. Seldom has Death come more awesomely. The storm was worthy even of George V, King and Emperor, defender of the faith, who lay all week in his great bed at Buckingham Palace, silently and bravely fighting the bacilli of influenza and pleurisy...
Impressive and memorable was the tribute paid by His Majesty's devoted subjects. They came in spontaneous crowds to stand, day after day and far into each night, outside the tall iron fence of Buckingham Palace. Most of the time a chill and dreary drizzle fell, alike upon the silent crowd and on the many twinkling limousines which hurried, one after another, up to the palace door. From these descended such personages as Her Majesty Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain, Field Marshall Viscount Allenby, Her Grace the Duchess of Argyle, the Earl and Countess of Athlone,* Right Honorable Cabinet...