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October 1936-TIME censored in England for stories on Edward VIII's abdication crisis...
Died. Anthony William Hall, 53, village police inspector, pretender to the throne of Britain as King Anthony I (he claimed direct descent from Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn); of a heart ailment; in Little Dewchurch, England. Hall, who leaves no heir (his older brother Don, once renounced all claims to kingship in the event of Anthony's success), campaigned for the throne with dignity but persistence, addressed some 2,000 outdoor meetings. At various times he sent a notice to King George V to quit, plumped for the return of the American colonies to Britain, and tried to build...
...that this or that is not nice news? ... A news editor with that type of mind would be like a general with a conscientious objection to killing. . . . The London press is already too niminy piminy." When other British national papers were niminy piminy about the story of Edward VIII and Wallis Warfield Simpson, the Mirror broke...
...started making pictures in an abandoned shed shortly after World War I, Korda reached the top in Europe, went to Hollywood, and returned after five years-a failure. Three years later, in London, with actors he promised to pay later, he turned out The Private Life of Henry VIII and won the support of Britain's powerful Prudential Assurance Co., Ltd. Prudential staked his London Film Productions, Ltd. with cash to turn out topflight pictures (Catherine the Great, Rembrandt, Scarlet Pimpernel...
Died. The Rt. Rev. Herbert Hensley Henson, 83, sharp-tongued onetime (1920-39) Anglican Bishop of Durham, England; near Ipswich, England. One of the first British critics of the Nazis and their antiSemitism, Bishop Henson made many enemies with his scathing denunciations of the Oxford Group, Edward VIII's marriage, the U.S. ("a conspicuous illustration of the folly of neglecting the moral factor in life"), and the U.S.S.R. "with its hideous doctrine of mechanized humanity...