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...this might have been only a tempest in the best journalistic pots of Fleet Street, except that Government departments in Whitehall seethed last week with rumors of personal clashes between Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and King Edward in Buckingham Palace. A grave impression was produced when an audience which scores of British officials knew Mr. Baldwin had had with Edward VIII was unprecedentedly omitted from mention in the royal Court Circular next morning. British public life moves with such regularity in its accustomed grooves that for the Prime Minister, suddenly by telegraph, to summon members of his Cabinet to drop...
When a motorized military unit moves into the field, a complete repair unit follows not far behind to overhaul any piece of fouled equipment on the spot. Similarly, when a,battle fleet goes to sea the auxiliary service fleet that follows in its wake includes a repair ship ready to make repairs as best they can. The usefulness of modern repair ships is restricted since they can make only minor or temporary repairs on smaller craft. To correct such major difficulties on a capital ship as a broken propeller or rudder or a loosened plate below the waterline, the ship...
...Baron Beaverbrook, most powerful press tycoon of Fleet Street, arrived in Manhattan on the Bremen last week to face reporters eager to get at the bottom of why his Daily Express and other London papers have not printed the Mrs. Simpson story. "You are the censor!" cried a reporter. Replied Lord Beaverbrook...
...tricks on him, pulled his hair, once almost killed him with one of her pranks. Making a great fuss over his rights, Napoleon outsmarted his jailers almost from habit, played on the sympathies of Europe, started such rumors that presently a large body of troops and a good-sized fleet were assembled to prevent an escape that was literally impossible. Napoleon would hide from his guards, dress his servant in his clothing, start a panic, then shake his head gleefully over the stupidity of the English. Such small victories tightened the restrictions around him. His last struggle was his five...
...After dining with Mrs. Simpson and making merry with friends who drifted in afterward, His Majesty left after midnight by sleeping car to review at Portland the Home Fleet, just back from "threatening" Italy in the Mediterranean (TIME, Sept. 30, 1935). The Royal Yacht Victoria & Albert on which King George and Queen Mary always put to sea to review the fleet was slept in by King Edward, tied to the dock at Portland. Rousingly cheered, His Majesty cried genially, "The last time I was at Portland, I was a midshipman!", proceeded to inspect the fleet from a fast admiral...