"Truth is regarded as treachery and a foul blow, as outside the ropes, as stabbing in the back or hitting below the belt."

We are familiar to-day with the general principle of decency which limits political attacks, and especially attacks upon leading politicians. That principle is simple enough: it is that a man may say anything whatever against a politician, however wild, so long as it is not true. Truth is regarded as treachery and a foul blow, as outside the ropes, as stabbing in the back or hitting below the belt.

-July 11, 1925, Illustrated London News