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...Cabinet of Socialist Premier Léon Blum, launched daily rumors that German troops were arriving in Morocco at Ceuta, only 14 miles across the Straits from Britain's Gibraltar and "within canonading range''. In London these rumors had galvanic effect. The nervous Duke of Windsor's nervous intimate friend, British War Secretary Alfred Duff Cooper, who has said in a public address that he considers it his duty to "frighten people out of their wits" with the dangers of War (TIME, June 22), promptly bolted from London over to Paris. There he conferred with burly...
English Queen Mary's brother, the Earl of Athlone, Governor of Windsor Castle, bore the delay without appearing bored, but the Duke of Kent, who some years ago was mooted as a bridegroom for Crown Princess Juliana (she was later a bridesmaid at his wedding), fidgeted and fumed with the "shyness" notable in all sons of King George V. A Dutch Cabinet Minister passed around chocolates, and these the Dutch and German guests beamishly consumed. The British would not eat in a Dutch church, as "it isn't done in England," and the shyness of Kent became each...
...France last week by Mrs. Simpson which in effect branded the editor of the Washington Star as a gossipmonger and sob-writer of the lowest order. In Cannes, Mrs. Simpson announced to the world Press: ". . . Mrs. Simpson states that Mr. Noyes is not her cousin. . . . Neither the Duke of Windsor nor Mrs. Simpson ever gave Mr. Noyes any kind of interview. . . . Noyes was received at dinner by King Edward, but . . . the conversation on that occasion was solely of a general nature and took at no time the confidential turn indicated by Noyes in his articles. . . . Mrs. Simpson . . . authorized him only...
...Simpson had composed, said Mr. Noyes, an authorization to be printed above this story substantially thus: "An old friend of many years standing has asked permission to paint a portrait of me in words. To him I said 'yes.' (signed') Wallis Simpson." From the Duke of Windsor last week came no direct repudiation to Publisher Noyes, who still stoutly maintained that Edward VIII had told him that he, the King, was going to act as his own press officer, had given Mr. Noyes his private telephone number, had repeatedly responded with information when Noyes rang this number...
...London, where the Duke of Windsor was taking a fresh dive in prestige, his youngest brother, the Duke of Kent, suddenly found himself the target of a press which, having tasted royal scandal, lusted for more. Kent had got into the news, while nis Duchess was abed with her second child, by going with his orchidaceous friend Mrs. Allen to have his bumps read by a phrenologist and posing with Mrs. Allen on the doorstep (TIME...