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...official round of duty took King Edward VIII to the British Indian pavilion at the Vienna Fair, to President Wilhelm Miklas of Austria and to Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg. He went nightly to the State Opera or ballet with Mrs. Simpson and daily with Mrs. Simpson to the office of Herr Professor Doktor Heinrich Neumann who last year treated the Prince of Wales for inflammation of the middle ear, this year took X-rays of King Edward's ears, treated them for the after-effects of a cold. The local British Legation issued twittery communiques which tended to alarm public...
...Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin successfully pressed His Majesty to accept. Major Alexander Hardinge. The London weekly Great Britain and the East recently identified Major Hardinge as the official who never tires of advocating greater dignity in His Majesty's affairs and is tortured by informal reporting of Edward VIII in either British or U. S. publications. With the King on holiday is his actual private secretary, Sir Godfrey Thomas, who for 15 years was his official Private Secretary when Edward was Prince of Wales. Arrested and fined for speeding near London fortnight ago, Hardinge said to the constable with...
...whereabouts of Edward VIII last week were Greece (see p. 22), and Turkey. At Istanbul the greatest statesman in the Near East, Kamal Ataturk, who overthrew the Turkish Sultanate and Caliphate, abolished the fez and is rapidly making the Turkish Republic a powerful and modern State, undertook to send the British royal party comfortably home overland. For this purpose the Turkish Presidential Train was transferred from Asia to Europe by ferrying it across the Bosporus. Quitting the $1,350,000 chartered royal yacht Nahlin and chuffing into Bulgaria, Edward VIII in a general way made for London, giving out that...
...Athens a closely guarded limousine swept up to the British Legation and instalked stocky General John M'etaxas, the new Dictator (TIME, Aug. 17). A second car brought King Edward VIII. Over cups of tea the two men talked earnestly for more than two hours. That night Edward and his pleasure-cruising friends were up until 3 a. m. dancing in a simple tavern and open-air cabaret, near Athens...
...have the King's approval for all these plans," added Dictator Metaxas-by which he was assumed to mean the approval of King George II of Greece, a most intimate friend of Britain's late King George V, and an attentive host to King Edward VIII...