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...unpleasant to take, especially for a Minister of the Gospel-but I can take it. I was born a Britisher, and as blood is thicker than water, I still have a warm place in my heart for the British Isles. For this reason the escapades of King Edward VIII, and especially his relations with Mrs. Simpson, while almost revolting to a strict Churchman, seem to me to have a far deeper significance than that which is generally attributed to them...
Thus, although Mrs. Simpson could not be with the King as much as usual because she was in course of divorcing Mr. Simpson last week, she was every moment under the eyes of the King's men & women. Visibly unhappy, Edward VIII decided to give a stag houseparty at Sandringham, the house in which King George died. Guests included His Majesty's brother-in-law the Earl of Harewood and First Lord of the Admiralty Sir Samuel Hoare for whom the King since his accession has shown much liking...
...jovial, golfing Sir John Anthony Hawke, who was for five years attached to the present King in the capacity of Attorney General to the Prince of Wales. Assuming that Sir John grants the divorce, any technical flaw in this decision can be discovered only by another of Edward VIII's officials, the King's Proctor. The Ipswich assizes open this week but those at Norwich opened last week, with Sir John presenting his traditional spectacle of royal pomp. Up he walked with the Mayor, local judges and members of the Norwich Corporation, all in full robes...
...swamped with an avalanche of customers. While $500 of insurance against postponement of the Coronation could at first be had for $20, latecomers were obliged to pay $130. Finally the market became so top-heavy that brokers were unwilling to take at any price the risk of what Edward VIII might do. In the eyes of British businessmen he had ceased last week to be the "Empire Salesman" and had become a most unsettling factor in trade...
Nevertheless, Edward VIII has always scrupulously performed his outward "public duties." He has been the "Empire Salesman." He has led a charmed youth with the result that today at 42 he still seems from a distance of 15 feet only about 22. And His Majesty is undoubtedly most popular with millions of the British Lower Classes. Today there is probably not a person of this class who does not love King Edward, in the sense that "the Englishman is taught to love his King as a friend." Meanwhile, in Mayfair there is a small, swift, hard-drinking clique...