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...about God-fearing Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. Englishmen make a great thing of initials in their speech and the "P. M." (Prime Minister) was said to have been going over with the Cabinet the speech he subsequently made in the House of Commons upon the accession of King Edward VIII. Afterward Mr. Baldwin's secretary gathered up the manuscript and observed a marginal note by the Prime Minister, ''Refer again...
...there ever was anything pushing and undignified about being a salesman, His Majesty Edward VIII redeemed that calling and gave it lustre by becoming, as Prince of Wales, "the Empire Salesman...
...things in TIME," a footnote was laconically dropped: "This is a newsmagazine published in the United States. . . ." "Accurate, Brisk, Complete," Cavalcade regretted that its first issue was caught between two reigns, thus requiring an eight page take-out on the death of George V, the ascension of Edward VIII. Alan Cameron is not only Cavalcade's editor but half its staff. The other half is Publisher William James Brittain, a rising Fleet Streeter who was once assistant editor of Lord Beaverbrook's blatant Sunday Express. Impartial observers thought that on merit Brittain's Cavalcade would outlast Korda...
Everywhere remarked with approval in London last week was the new earnestness and gravity which have set themselves upon the features of Edward VIII since he became King. Instead of the swank Rolls-Royce which often used to carry him as Prince of Wales, His Majesty has taken to riding in the stately maroon Daimler of His late Majesty, enormous, high and with a performance anything but snappy...
...Cabinet decided last week to appoint British ambassadors extraordinary who will journey to the capital of every major country in the worM and announce in each the accession of Edward VIII...