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...surprise about the abdication of Edward VIII...
...Glasgow and Edinburgh view, history will soon begin to record that altogether too many subjects of King George VI are altogether too unsatisfied with what little they know about how Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin secured the abdication and departure of King Edward (TIME, Dec. 21). The fact that Edward VIII had apparently quit, and was even being called contemptuously a "quitter" last week, failed to appease the patient resolve of Scotsmen to know all, sooner or later. The adjournment of the House of Commons in London last week was welcomed by Scottish constituents as an opportunity to get their Scottish...
...just fooling around but was firm in his resolve to marry (TIME, Nov. 2). Scoop No. 2 is under stood to have been secured for Mr. Hearst by Miss Marion Davies in transatlantic conversation with her friend Mrs. Ernest Simpson. This scoop was the information that, while Edward VIII was firmly resolved to marry, it was a morganatic marriage which the King contemplated and not a marriage which would create a Queen. Both Scoop No. i and Scoop No. 2 were played by all Hearst papers in dignified, unequivocal language and both proved absolutely right...
...known to me. But to me it is obvious. A man slightly different from most men-and I think that is a reasonable assumption in his case-has difficulty in finding a woman to his taste." Mr. Ellis said he spoke to Edward VIII "not necessarily in a pathological sense or anything like that"-appeared to consider him simply as The Boy Who Didn't Grow Up and Mrs. Simpson as the Mother...
...month his son, John Williams Andrews, published a well-reviewed first volume of poetry. Prelude to Icaros. Between such tasks as unearthing The Colonial Background of the American Revolution, Professor Andrews travels, is interested in contemporary British as well as early U. S. history, considers the abdication of Edward VIII a wise decision without precedent in the interests of the British Empire. No longer lecturing, working only with graduate students, popular, retiring Professor Andrews at 73 looks forward to publishing the third volume of The Colonial Period in American History next March, the fourth in 1938. Beyond that he says...