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...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...
...about all, according to Mr. Baldwin, except that his royal friend had required a little time to decide to abdicate rather than make Mrs. Simpson his Queen, and Mr. Baldwin later most vehemently declared that the entire Royal Family had congratulated him upon his zeal in pressing Edward VIII unceasingly NOT to abdicate...
Even Stanley Baldwin's warmest enemy, sanctions-badgered Benito Mussolini, was enough of a Great Editor last week to agree that the Prime Minister had been great in handling the Empire crisis of Edward VIII. Il Duce dictates daily the tone of Italy's press and the following handsome admission in Giornale d'ltalia might have been tagged To Stanley from Benito: "Prime Minister Baldwin has served the interests of his country worthily by facing the painful but necessary battle to separate, even up to extreme consequences, Edward's private life from the duties that...
...speech also contained that little throb of penitence which has for years been the trademark of every "crisis speech" by Stanley Baldwin. A democratic Prime Minister must undertake no great matter without informing at least three or four principal members of the British Cabinet. Of his approach to Edward VIII on this gravest issue, the Prime Minister told the House of Commons: "I consulted-I am ashamed to say it, but they have forgiven me-none of my colleagues...
...taking this kind of risk that an officer under fire is afterward either shot or plastered with medals. As Mr. Baldwin had just laid before the House the irrevocable abdication of Edward VIII, "signed by his own hand," the Prime Minister was not exactly under fire. The House was offered a choice of voting either for or against His Majesty's "irrevocable decision." It was ratified by a vote of 403-to-5 in the Commons and passed without dissent in the Lords. Dominion Parliaments hastened to concur by rubber-stamp landslides, all excepting the Irish Free State...