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Scene: The Private Study of King Edward at Buckingham Palace: Tiny Lord Beaverbrook, the most powerful London publisher and a onetime Canadian insurance salesman, perches with his broad grin in the middle of an armchair. Over whiskeys & sodas from 6 p. m. to 8 p. m., the King, restless and flushed with anger, tells Lord Beaverbrook, hastily summoned from a proposed trip to Arizona, of his resentment at Prime Minister Baldwin's summoning of the Cabinet to interfere in His Majesty's proposed marriage to twice-divorced Mrs. Simpson (TIME, Dec. 7). A break obviously is near...
...bolting jack rabbit, too fast for anything but the camera to catch (see cut). The accustomed massive aplomb of the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin was accelerated until the Prime Minister became one day last week a palpitating and perspiring fat man dashing between No. 10 Downing St. and Buckingham Palace in an atmosphere so agitated that he even forgot...
...want no Dictator!''* King Edward, motoring in from his suburban snuggery (where Mrs. Simpson and her chaperon Aunt Bessie have been with him several nights each week), blows off steam at Buckingham Palace by rejecting a new set of designs for British Army uniforms. He chats about Polar conditions with Explorer Lincoln Ellsworth, who afterwards calls His Majesty "cheerful" and denies they talked about selling the King's money-losing Canadian ranch. Edward VIII does the duty of dubbing an Indian politician knight (name: Ramaswami Srinivasa Sarma), and is icily angry when perspiring Mr. Baldwin rushes...
...Duke afterwards exclaims "the worst has happened!" The King, after spending in his snuggery with Mrs. Simpson what is to be their last day together for some time, drives in to call on his mother at 6:30 p. m., then slips over to Buckingham Palace and confers with the Duke of York. Simultaneously Mr. Baldwin confers in the Houses of Parliament with the Archbishop of Canterbury...
...Duke & Duchess of York sit down to dinner with Queen Mary in Marlborough House. From 9:15 to 10:05 m Buckingham Palace the King and Mr. Baldwin discuss his claim that the Dominions are solid against Mrs. Simpson...