Word: dominione
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...awful duty to make. Mr. Baldwin went on to tell how these two perfect friends had confided to each other that the one wanted to marry Mrs. Simpson and the other, while not venturing to advise, still less to blame, had expressed the opinion that the Home and Dominion Parliaments would never enact such legislation as would permit Mrs. Simpson to take the status of a morganatic wife, as the King wished. That was about all, according to Mr. Baldwin, except that his royal friend had required a little time to decide to abdicate rather than make Mrs. Simpson...
...hand," the Prime Minister was not exactly under fire. The House was offered a choice of voting either for or against His Majesty's "irrevocable decision." It was ratified by a vote of 403-to-5 in the Commons and passed without dissent in the Lords. Dominion Parliaments hastened to concur by rubber-stamp landslides, all excepting the Irish Free State (see p. 18). Finally Parliament so legislated that Prince Edward and his heirs shall be free to marry whom they please without having first to obtain the King's consent as ordinary members of the Royal Family...
...last week "the person of the King in the Irish Free State" (as in any other Dominion) was the Governor General appointed by the King. Irishmen thought the British crisis (see p. 14) an opportunity too good to lose. In Dublin the Dail by a vote of 81-to-5 frostily "approved" the fact that there is a new King, said nothing about "allegiance" and passed an amendment 79-to-55 that the office of Governor General of the Irish Free State is abolished...
This had to mean something because it was a President who spoke, otherwise it was almost Irish gibberish. If no further step is taken, the "dominion status" of the Free State under the Crown-which in any case does not exclude the right of secession-is left pretty much in its gossamer status...
...ever to meet again; and 2) both Edward VIII and George VI are today King, according to this bill. By another technicality Edward VIII in the Union of South Africa will be King until its Parliament meets next Jan. 8 to confirm His Majesty's abdication in that Dominion...