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...years been the Empire's popular "Smiling Duchess," that aboundingly healthy Scotswoman who is now Queen-Empress Elizabeth. Suddenly last week His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for India, the Marquess of Zetland, announced that new King George had told him the scheduled Coronation Durbar at New Delhi cannot take place next winter for reasons having to do with Queen Elizabeth's "health." The official announcement voiced vague "hope" that in some other year the Durbar of George & Elizabeth may take place, but the Marquess of Zetland could scarcely have done anything last week more worrying...
...laid aside for this occasion his recent preoccupation with the special problems of India's Untouchables and village industries. Mr. Gandhi now concerned himself and the Congress concerned itself with deciding whether to: 1) support or struggle against the New Indian Constitution; 2) support or boycott the Coronation Durbar in India next winter of Their Majesties; 3) support or withhold support from His Majesty's Government in case they find themselves...
...country place. Dignitaries received by His Majesty last week spread in restricted Mayfair circles an impression that the King, after he is crowned in May 1937, will set out on a tour of the Empire extending clear around the calendar to spring of 1938. This would include a Coronation Durbar at New Delhi in the winter of 1937-38, and this week officials in Whitehall were appalled by the prospect that Mrs. Simpson is apparently to accompany the King, married or unmarried...
...Hopes of India drove off in a carriage drawn by six prancing bays, guarded before and behind by cavalry & the Viceroy's Body Guard, their tunics eddying in glittering waves of scarlet. All this might have fallen flat, but the new Viceroy, after taking the oath in Durbar Hall-where new Emperor Edward VIII has the pleasure in store of sitting on India's golden Throne (see cut, p. 22)- the Marquess of Linlithgow made a radio broadcast which can be compared in its surprising effect only to the "fireside talks" with which friendly "Frank"' Roosevelt kindled...
...exhort him on the subject of the British Expeditionary Force now speeding to Palestine to crush Arab insurgence and make it a true "Jewish homeland." Ready was the India Office with suggestions requiring His Majesty's approval before it can be settled whether there will be a Coronation Durbar. And ready to be unpacked was a large truckload of souvenirs acquired by the King in the Balkans, including Bulgarian rosewater and pots of a kind of jam he liked in Greece. As son went in to dine with devoted mother a crowd, cheering outside Buckingham Palace in the deep...