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Change of Title. The biggest remaining affront to Vietnamese pride was French insistence on maintaining a high commissioner instead of an ambassador. Last week that, too, was changed. The Quai d'Orsay announced that High Commissioner Henri Hoppenot, who has never got on well with the Vietnamese, would be recalled and replaced by an ambassador. Delighted, Premier Diem invited Hoppenot to his palace for a farewell Chinese dinner, a gesture unthinkable a year...
...years since Peter Townsend had first gone to serve his King, the coltish teen-ager in the corridor had grown into a woman fully conscious of her position and proud of its prerogatives. Warmly magnetic when she wants to be, she can stiffen into icy frigidity at any affront to the protocol she feels is her due. Even her best friends call her "Ma'am," and a brash acquaintance who once inquired solicitously after the health "of your father," was instantly frozen with the reply, "I presume you mean His Majesty...
Deliberate Affront. Powerful forces joined to change the mind of the earnest, conscientious young woman of 25, forced to choose between love and duty. In Anthony Eden's Cabinet, in the Established Church, even in the palace itself, persons opposed to the marriage were bending every effort to make the Princess aware of the seriousness of the step she proposed to take. Each day that passed threw more pressure against Margaret's apparent determination to renounce her royal rights and marry Peter Townsend...
...Anglican clergymen revealed that 85 would refuse to officiate at the proposed marriage, 13 would be willing to marry the pair, two were undecided. One outspoken churchman, Canon Charles Kirkland of Canterbury, told an audience of mothers last week that the Princess "contemplates doing something which is deliberately an affront both to religion and the church." Some other Anglican churchmen were quick to condemn these words as "cruel and unjust...
...listen to these men. Go away from them!" But the braceros paid little attention. "This so-called crusade is an insult to the Catholic Church," he said later. "These Baptists consider the men pagans and even tell them they are. It's not so. It's an affront to come in and confuse these simple, uneducated people like that...