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...readers' poll nominating TIME'S Man of the Year entered its last week, far out in front of a field of 51 were President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Duke of Windsor, Mrs. Simpson...
Neither new King George VI nor any member of the Royal Family sat with Prince Edward during the abdication broadcast from Windsor Castle (see p. 15). His Majesty had become King and Emperor eight hours previously, and immediately dropped into a quiet routine of receiving British home & Dominion statesmen at his home, No. 145 Piccadilly. As Duke of York he aroused only the slightest public interest, but British aristocrats said with particular satisfaction of the Duchess of York, "She is one of us," and a popular knowledge that the late King George V was most fond of their little daughter...
...Dutch were as happy about Juliana as the British were upset over Edward. Dutchmen do not stand about in clubs muttering vaguely, "It isn't done." In blunt, indignant Dutch they said straight out last week what they thought of attempts to pretty up the House of Windsor by slinging sour grapes at the House of Orange-Nassau...
...heels of the News of Edward VIII's abdication comes the rumor as yet unconfirmed, that Mr. Windsor will be the next police commissioner for James M. Curley, late defeated candidate for Senator, or maybe the rumor is "Curley for King, Wally for Commissioner...
...graver national and international complications. The Tories have pulled a coup d'etat by eliminating a very liberal force within the country, who by his personal interest in labor problems and social conditions in the Empire, was in a position to accomplish a great deal along humanitarian lines. David Windsor, as he will now be called, was in closer contact with the masses of England than any other King before him, and those very people who needed his attention will miss it most...