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...Embassy, the Canadian, Irish and South African Legations, Secretary of State Hull conveyed the official condolences of the U. S. Government to the Governments of the British Commonwealth. The sorrow of the people of the U. S. was bespoken by President Roosevelt, who added in his message to Edward VIII: "I had the privilege of knowing His Majesty during the War days, and his passing brings to me personally a special sorrow...
...flagrant undemocratic abuses at the demand of Mr. Eden. The League's High Commissioner for Danzig is Irish Sean Lester, and Geneva found it piquant that Mr. Eden strongly backed him up last week, for the Irish Free State was this week the only part of King Edward VIII's realm in which his accession to the Throne had not yet been proclaimed...
...Sandringham the Prince of Wales, with news services sending out advance canned dispatches in which he already figured as King Edward VIII, jumped into a car with the Duke of York, drove at a fast clip for Windsor. Technically Windsor is not a "palace" but a "fortress" and, because of this, bulletins on George V's condition were not posted there as they were at Sandringham House and at Buckingham Palace...
Instantaneously Edward of Wales be came King Edward VIII, although for malities and proclamations will continue for days. The funeral must be delayed sufficiently to give the World's great time to reach London. Then months of mourn ing must pass before the coronation of His Majesty King Edward VIII...
...Teano, 15th Duke of Sermoneta, elder brother of Italy's onetime Ambassador to the U. S. Don Gelasio Caetani, first cousin of Britain's present Ambassador to the U. S., Sir Ronald Lindsay, scion of an age-old Roman family which sired Popes Gelasius II and Boniface VIII and author of the monumental history of Mohammedanism, Annalli Dell' Islam; in Vancouver, Canada. Since much of the historic Caetani lands lay in the Pontine Marshes, the Socialist duke conceived enlightened plans for draining them, a project dear for hundreds of years to the Popes and first Papal families...