From ‘Prisoners of War’, The Spectator, 13 March 1915:
Let us mention also a passage from Hume’s history quoted by Sir Graham Bower in an excellent letter to the Morning Post of Wednesday. Hume is describing the campaign of Edward III :—
“The French officers who had fallen into the hands of the English were conducted into Calais, where Edward discovered to them the antagonist with whom they had had the honour tabs engaged, and treated them with great regard and courtesy. They were admitted to sup with the Prince of Wales and the English nobility, and after supper the King himself came into the apartment and went about conversing familiarly?’
We fear that some Englishmen are falling into such a frame of mind that if Edward III reappeared and acted in the same way today he would be told that he was a traitor or a spy, instead of one of the greatest of English soldiers.
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