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...London the Admiralty announced that one of the two great capital ships to be laid down by Britain in 1937, the first since the War, will be named the King Edward VIII...
...route promptly soared last week to as much as $200 for a small chair on a precarious roof ledge. In a patriotic effort not to profiteer, one London firm offered armchair seats in its shop windows for only $150 each, including sandwiches and coffee. In Paris last week Edward VIII's coming Coronation inspired famed Style Creator Schiaparelli to bring out an autumn collection featuring crown-shaped hats, regal brocades and embroideries, crown motifs on buttons...
...five people who flew away with him in his royal plane, piloted by modest Edward ("Mouse") Fielden, Captain of the King's Flight. It took the machine exactly 14 minutes to fly the English Channel. At an obscure French air field near Calais vacationing Edward VIII became "the first King of England ever to alight from the air on foreign soil...
...chartered royal yacht Nahlin left England for the Adriatic last week with her master Captain Doyle instructed that only after sailing would he be told by the Admiralty House radio from Whitehall in what Balkan port to pick up Edward VIII...
...would hardly do for Greece to have another revolution just as her waters gave hospitality to yachting British King Edward VIII. Yet in Athens last week Greek King George II was conscious of revolution brewing. Soviet newsorgans were boasting openly that Moscow had just sent some $2,400,000 to aid the Reds of Spain, and the Reds of Greece had also begun to flourish. One night last week His Majesty was kept up late by the Greek Cabinet. The Premier, General John ("Little Moltke") Metaxas, has been frankly pro-German ever since he rated high as a young officer...