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...except that the King is above British law. No subject, not even the Prime Minister, has access to the will of His late Majesty. Sealed and placed in the Royal Family's vaults at Somerset House, the will can be invoked only at the pleasure of King Edward VIII and his successors. The value of postage stamps left by George V is estimated at $2,000,000. Not a penny of tax will the Exchequer receive...
Britain's ruling class and especially prominent London bankers were particularly satisfied that Edward VIII is known to be pro-German-a fact strongly highlighted this week when, at a reception the night before his late father's funeral, the King singled out Germany's representative for marked attention. His Majesty made friendly and public overtures to the Nazis last year as Prince of Wales. This at the time flustered Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, who had lucklessly declared that Britain's frontier was upon the Rhine...
...proved himself sound when a U. S. Senator suggested that since Britain was unable to pay her War debt in cash the Empire might. prefer to dis charge its obligation by ceding the British West Indies to the U. S. in part payment. In Barbados immediately afterward Edward VIII, then Prince of Wales, made a vigorous speech which loyal Britons last week recalled with pride in their new King. "The King's subjects are not for sale to other governments!" he cried. "Their destiny as free men is in their own hands. Your future is for yourselves to shape...
...King's activity is of a different sort from that of the late Prince Consort Albert, who toiled night & day over the lustiest and most arduous matters of state but it does suggest that Edward VIII has stuff in him likely to ripen on the Throne. No woman has ever pleased Majesty unless she was what King Edward calls "snappy" - that is, active, a good dancer, ebullient, high-strung. In horses he has the same taste and the number of ebullient horses which have fallen with His Majesty, spraining his ankle, breaking his collarbone, once kicking him squarely...
Unlike Edward VII, who came to the throne at 59 with many long-cultivated acquaintances among British statesmen, Ed ward VIII is to the Prime Minister and executives of the British Empire almost a stranger - a singularly young-looking man of 41 whom they are accustomed to see pop in at a banquet, toy briefly with cold chicken washed down by Scotch & splash while others chomp the hot roast-beef of Old England, and then, after delivering a brief address...