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This is commonly cited as the outstanding "Socialist" expression by Edward VIII and it was stretched at the time by some Laborites into an indication that "King Edward the Eighth will be England's first Socialist King!" Happily last week the nationwide coal strike which has been angrily brewing this winter as miners demanded a daily increase of two shillings was settled as the miners agreed to take one shilling-an auspicious economic opening for His Majesty's reign...
...beyond the orbit of those responsible British states men over whom the new King must now reign while they rule. For the sheer energy of this light, lean King the ruled class have a special liking, because to them so many British employers seem languid and over fed. Edward VIII is appropriately a "snappy" King. The extreme difficulty of finding for Britain a future "snappy" Queen among the eligible princesses of Europe is part of the reason why Edward VIII is unmarried...
...When I Am King!" According to the King's devoted ranching neighbor, biographer and friend in Canada, Mr. Frazier Hunt, Edward VIII is a profound fatalist about his own life and personal affairs. As Prince of Wales, however, he would often vehemently say of his inheritance: "Things will be different when I am King!" Great problems of the Kingdom and the Empire to which Edward VIII has for years given his best thought are: 1) how to promote the sale of British goods; 2) how to combat unemployment; 3) how to minimize the clash of British classes...
...Empire Salesman" and the "Prince of Sales" the travels of Edward VIII have been worldwide. Always on returning to London he made strong speeches to British tycoons, rebuking them, in effect, for not resorting to U. S. high-pressure sales methods and clarioning time & again the phrase coined by George V when he was Prince of Wales: "Wake up, England...
...unemployment goes, Edward VIII sensed that the dilemma is so vast as to discourage and paralyze the initiative of many British statesmen. In a most vigorous speech at Albert Hall when he was 37, the future King urged with respect to unemployment, "So far as it is humanly possible, let us break it up into little pieces and refuse to be browbeaten into paralysis by its size...