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...audience of Tory imperialists to vow, in memory of the "first Englishman to see in his mind the British Empire as it is seen today in fact," that "not one yard of territory shall be torn from the Empire." Sir Austen read a telegram of congratulation from King Edward VIII. A portrait of Old Joe 50 ft. high was unveiled and the crowd could not help seeing the striking resemblance to Son Austen on the platform...
...Majesty King Edward VIII and the heir to the throne, His Royal Highness the Duke of York, flew in the same plane 300 miles last week, inspecting aircraft stations. An accident might thus have instantaneously made charming 10 year-old Princess ("Lilybet") Elizabeth, the Sovereign Queen and Empress...
...Britannia, the greatest sailing yacht of the British Royal Family, was decked with blossoms, towed out into the Channel at night to foil photographers and sunk last week by order of King Edward VIII...
...Before the figure of King Henry VIII in Madame Tussaud's Waxworks last week halted His Highness the Sheik of Bahrein, recently decorated by King Edward VIII (TIME. July 6), and loudly exclaimed with a gesture of disdain: "I do not like this big fat man who killed his wives...
...April Fool's Day this year, the British Minister to the Kingdom of the Hellenes, dignified Sir Sydney Waterlow, whose rich relatives make stationery for King Edward VIII and British Government departments, was announced to have called upon Greek War Minister General John Metaxas and sternly inquired how things were getting on-particularly the rival British and German bids to build for Greece four destroyers. Last week General Metaxas, who has since become Premier of Greece, threw $13,500,000 of armament orders to Germany...