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...Received from His Majesty the first written message of King Edward VIII to the House...
...highly susceptible nature" got out of hand. At the Ritz in Paris the King soon sobered. "I do not believe war is imminent," he wisely told correspondents. "In fact, I am confident peace can be maintained. In this respect I have great hopes for the reign of Edward VIII. He is a man endowed with rare equilibrium - rare equilibrium ! My own country, my beloved Rumania, each day becomes more like the country it models - I mean France, that admirable woman! I cannot but feel the brother of all French men. France and Rumania! One can say they are two countries...
...informed, the right to advise and the right to warn. . . . Nowadays the King always acts on the advice of his Ministers, who themselves are responsible to Parliament." This bucket of juridical cold water flung over the new King by radio was utterly unprecedented. First advice to Edward VIII last week came from the heads of the British fighting services. They advised His Majesty to promote himself retroactively, as of the day after George V's death, to the ranks of Admiral of the Fleet, Field Marshal and Marshal of the Royal Air Force. This advice His Majesty was graciously...
Numerous British newsorgans carried rumors that Edward VIII will go to each Dominion and be crowned its King, then to India for a grand Durbar coronation as Emperor. To light this week came the fact that under the Statute of Westminster the various Dominions have proclaimed Edward their King in different formulas, partly of their own devising. At Ottawa, for example, His Majesty was proclaimed "Supreme Lord in and over the Dominion of Canada," a title which rings exceedingly strange in English ears...
...before all London watched King Edward VIII follow the body of his father, George V to Westminster Hall last week, a quiet company gathered in nearby Westminster Abbey to watch the cremated ashes of Rudyard Kipling, housed in a marble urn, disappear into the shallow loam under the paved flooring where are mixed the dust of Tennyson, Dickens and Samuel Johnson. At the end of the quiet service the Abbey choir soared into Kipling's stirring Recessional. To honor Britain's great Imperial Poet, the third man in the 20th Century to be buried in the Poets...