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...there be no boasting in our pride!" The proud Primate went on to describe the Duke of Windsor as "alien," called him as though already dead "our late King," denounced his "craving for private happiness" and referred to the present War Secretary of Great Britain, Captain Alfred Duff-Cooper and other close intimates of Edward VIII, thus: "Let those who belong in this circle know that today they stand rebuked...
Married. Lady Isobel Violet Kathleen Manners, 18, daughter of the Duke of Rutland, niece of Actress Lady Diana Duff Cooper and Secretary of State for War Alfred Duff Cooper; and Thomas Loel Evelyn Bulkeley Guinness, 30. divorced Member of Parliament for Bath whose sister, the Hon. Tanis Guinness Montagu, last month jilted the Earl of Carnarvon in Baltimore; by Rev. William Frederick Geikie-Cobb, one of the rare Church of England rectors willing to remarry divorcees; in London. To qualify as a resident of the parish of the Reverend Geikie-Cobb's Church of St. Ethelburga, Parliamentarian Guinness...
Palestine-It made no difference that War Minister Alfred Duff Cooper was lolling in the Balkans on a yachting cruise with King Edward. There were plenty of capable subordinates on hand when emergency cables began pouring into London from Jerusalem last week. A crisis of the most extreme urgency, in the opinion of the British residency in Palestine, was emerging from the Arab General Strike now in its twenty-first week. Abruptly 15,000 British troops, already drawn up in mock battle array for war games in Sussex, were piled aboard trains, rushed to Aldershot where overseas war equipment...
...Minister Alfred Duff Cooper, who was aboard the chartered royal yacht Nahlin, kept vainly radioing ashore that the King was traveling incognito as the Duke of Lancaster. Nevertheless, the next Balkan fortress passed would blaze away a 21-gun royal salute. The Duke of Lancaster delighted during the week to slip off the Nahlin with Mrs. Simpson, she in the stern and he at the oars of a skiff...
With a crew of 50 the Nahlin has superluxe accommodation for only a small yachting party which Palace reports slated thus: King Edward, Mr. and Mrs. Simpson, Lady Diana Duff Cooper, Lord and Lady Brownlow and Mrs. Evelyn Fitzgerald. Citizens of the Balkans learned with pride that the Royal Party will board the Nahlin in Yugoslavian waters, cruise to Greece where conditions are ripe for another revolution, finally cruise around the Italian boot on a "Good Will Trip" symbolic of post-Sanctions peace between Imperial Britain and newly Imperial Italy...