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...without a country is a sorry sight. An Emperor without an Empire is even sorrier, particularly if he renounced it for love, fun or other lesser considerations. Such a sight was pouch-eyed little Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor, as he skipped from one asylum to another last week...
Major General, the Duke of Windsor made a few trips to the front during the winter, saw Lord Gort a few times, but his headquarters remained at his house in Paris. There he and the woman he loves continued the life they had led since they moved to France three years ago, building their days around the little problems of whom they might invite for tea and dinner. "The Duchess," observed a Chicago Tribune fashion writer just as all hell broke loose in Flanders, "has compiled a spring wardrobe that is composed of about 20 major ensemble units which, when...
Canadian police sent word to the Free Press to recall the papers, but virtually the entire edition had been gobbled up by wild-eyed Windsor citizens. In outlying communities, police and vigilantes chased newsboys off the streets. A copy went to Ottawa, where Dominion censors stared at it aghast, took up their pens to add the Free Press to the list of banned U. S. periodicals...
...days after the Free Press incident, editors of Detroit papers got together in the office of the Detroit News with a close-clipped, tight-lipped censorship official from Toronto. They agreed: 1) that a censor should be stationed in Windsor to advise them, 2) that they would kill any story in their Canadian editions that the censor did not like...
...Name given Duke of Windsor by British troops...