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Sirs: May I be the first to make a nomination for your Man of the Year for 1936? For this honor I would name King Edward VIII, ruler of the empire upon which the sun never sets...
Sirs: Roosevelt is the standard bearer for an onrush. Were he not here, another would have carried the banner, less capably perhaps, but still carried it. Edward VIII has started a movement toward the disintegration of the oligarchy of England which will affect Great Britain profoundly and Europe as well. Comparisons are odious, but I vote for the originator-King Edward as Man of the Year-or maybe I should vote for Wally...
...nomination for Man of the Year, and running in the order listed, now are: Roosevelt, Edward VIII, Mrs. Simpson, Landon, Farley, Mussolini, Gehrig, Dr. Townsend, Mr. Simpson. The poll closes...
This was well calculated to make the King feel like a worm or sardine, † but Edward VIII found an unexpected press champion next morning in Viscount Rothermere. T his noble Lord's mass London organ, the Daily Mail (which has eight times the circulation of the Times), came out with a smashing pro-King-Emperor and anti-Prime Minister editorial. Recalling Stanley Baldwin's recent bumbling admission in the House of Commons that he would have told the public of the war danger Britain faces except that he was afraid that would lose him the last General...
...pots of Fleet Street, except that Government departments in Whitehall seethed last week with rumors of personal clashes between Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and King Edward in Buckingham Palace. A grave impression was produced when an audience which scores of British officials knew Mr. Baldwin had had with Edward VIII was unprecedentedly omitted from mention in the royal Court Circular next morning. British public life moves with such regularity in its accustomed grooves that for the Prime Minister, suddenly by telegraph, to summon members of his Cabinet to drop everything and rush to meet him at No. 10 Downing Street...