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Sirs: I nominate Edward VIII Man of the Year...
...resentment at Prime Minister Baldwin's summoning of the Cabinet to interfere in His Majesty's proposed marriage to twice-divorced Mrs. Simpson (TIME, Dec. 7). A break obviously is near in the news censorship self-imposed by the British Newspaper Proprietors' Association. Vehemently, Edward VIII urges his right to marry Mrs. Simpson upon Publisher Beaverbrook whose fingers remain, for the moment, crossed, though later his Daily Express goes cautiously pro-King & Mrs. Simpson...
Mencken last week declared that "the greatest story since the Resurrection" is the now living drama of Edward VIII. It cannot be staged in Britain as a play, although George Bernard Shaw hastily wrote last week for William Randolph Hearst a strongly pro-Mrs. Simpson and pro-Edward VIII playlet in which he flung at Prime Minister Baldwin the ultimate Irish insult of tagging him "Prime Minister Goldwyn." But the drama the world wanted to see, Edvardus Rex, was acting and writing itself hour by hour as the amazing facts erupted. They formed not a stately royal play such...
...heels of the News of Edward VIII's abdication comes the rumor as yet unconfirmed, that Mr. Windsor will be the next police commissioner for James M. Curley, late defeated candidate for Senator, or maybe the rumor is "Curley for King, Wally for Commissioner...
...TIME, Nov. 30), was eased by his valet into the regalia of Earl Marshal (see cut), and took his place with the Lord Chief Justice of England for the adjudication of claims made by personages of the nobility & gentry to be of service to No. 1 Eligible Bachelor Edward VIII during his Coronation...