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...first meeting 'since his marriage in June 1937 between the Duke of Windsor and other members of the royal family took place last week at the Windsor suite in the swank Hotel Meurice in Paris. The Duke's next to youngest brother, the Duke of Gloucester, accompanied by the Duchess, stopped off in Paris on the way home from an East African hunting trip to spend Armistice Day with the Windsors. Friends intimated that the meeting had been arranged and approved by King George, who has long been anxious for Queen Mary's sake to bring...
...Duchess of Gloucester, first royal family member to accept the thrice-married, U. S.-born Duchess of Windsor as a social equal, was reported to have been "very gracious." British newspapers noted the meeting in a few stilted lines but gossipy U. S. newsorgans speculated that the Duke & Duchess of Windsor would be invited home for the traditional royal Christmas season at Sandringham, that the Duke might soon be given a job abroad such as the Duke of Kent was given, that the pleased Windsors had promised to abandon plans for a U. S. trip until...
...London court circles said that the King had refused to receive the Duchess of Windsor, whose husband since last Christmas has pleaded with his family by letter and telephone to welcome his wife to England. The Duke of Windsor is expected by his family to break his two-year exile and revisit England early in the new year, alone...
...committee members fifteen in number, are: J. P. Bunker, of Matthews, M. Oppenheimer, Massachusetts, D. Whitmer, and J. O'Nell, Thayer; W. N. Perry of Hollis; G. Heiden of Weld; E. Spaeth, T. Carroll, A. Northrop of Grays; W. Bodine and H. Taylor of Wigglesworth; and R. Windsor and J. E. Massengale of Holworthy; E. G. Eklund of 40 Quincy Street, and A. Lowenburg and J. K. Dane of Dudley...
Several years ago Adolf Hitler asked the world's greatest otolaryngologist, Professor Heinrich von Neumann of Vienna, to examine his larynx. Dr. von Neumann had as patients and friends England's George VI and Duke of Windsor, Spain's Alfonso, Rumania's Carol, Greece's George, Austria's late Emperor Charles. But he is an orthodox Jew and he turned Hitler down. Last spring, when Hitler entered Austria, Dr. von Neumann was imprisoned and released upon the plea of the Duke of Windsor...