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Cincinnati, Ohio Sirs: In your issue of March 8, you state "George VI is sound in that in which King George V was most sound, and King Edward VIII by no means sound-Character-and so is Her Majesty." Haven't you drawn your conclusions a little early in the game? Time will tell. David Windsor is in the forefront of the battle for human rather than property rights, and for the spirit of marriage as opposed to the Letter of the Law. He stands in a symbolic relation to his age, and will influence it as his brother...
...clincher which proves that Germany admitted "war guilt" in signing the Treaty of Versailles is that 18 years afterward Adolf Hitler found it necessary to repudiate officially this German admission by renouncing Article 231, Section I, Part VIII of the Treaty which reads: "The Allied and Associated Governments affirm, and Germany accepts, the responsibility of Germany and her allies for causing all the loss and damage to which the Allied and Associated Governments and their nationals have been subjected as a consequence of the war imposed upon them by the aggression of Germany and her allies...
...personal tribute to Stanley Baldwin (TIME, Jan. 4) is going to be used by the Nuffield Trustees in conjunction with a scheme in which Government funds will be used to buy up to 25% of the capital stock of new factories set up in the areas Edward VIII used to tour. South Wales is to get several brand-new plants in which war explosives will be made, and in Lancashire a single new factory erected to fill projectiles with these explosives is to cost ?6,000,000 ($30,000,000)-or three times the sum given by Lord Nuffield...
...duty was paid when it entered the U. S. after having been built at Kiel during blackest years of German depression. Sea Cloud ranks as one of the world's most opulent yachts, roughly matching in swank the Nahlin rented by Edward VIII for his Balkan cruise last summer. Coronation time it will lie off Southampton, taking the Davieses cruising to the Spithead naval review, and after the English festivities are over, according to Ambassador Davies this week, the Sea Cloud will cruise across the North Sea into the Baltic and tie up at Leningrad-the first right royally...
...Journal was announcing that its January circulation had hit its all-time high of more than 2,900,000 copies. The advertisement also took note of the spectacularly wrong editorial guess which led off the record-breaking January Journal: a frontispiece and full-page color portrait of Edward VIII, "BY THE GRACE OF GOD, OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND AND OF THE BRITISH DOMINIONS BEYOND THE SEAS, KING. . . ." The Journal's coronation story by able Writer Henry F. Pringle and its accompanying pictures of Edward VIII were made up in the autumn. Last week's Journal trade announcement...