*The Address has caused a tremendous hullaballoo here in
London. First they tried to ignore it, but it was not possible. On
Wednesday the 14th, The Evening Standard published a denuncia-
tion, on the 15th The Daily News had an excerpt that then went
through most other papers. Then The Echo, Spectator on Saturday,
Graphic, Pall Mall Gazette, Telegraph—with leading articles, and
that was it. On Monday The Times followed with a really lousy
LEADER, then the Standard once more, yesterday The Times again,
and the whole of London spoke only of us.227 All wailing
Marx writing to Liebknecht (22nd June 1871) on the reaction of the London press to the Civil War in France (On the Paris Commune)
Lousy Leaders being a Times tradition that Rupert Murdoch (and Editor Tony Gallagher) honour more than 150 years on
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