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...Simpson was the final culmination of a tide of events sweeping the United Kingdom out of its cozy past and into a more or less hectic and "American" future. Against this trend the spirit of John Bull resolutely set himself, and the flesh was that of the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin. The Prime Minister provoked the entire crisis, which otherwise might never have arisen as a crisis, by making publicly in the House of Commons the first official statement that King Edward was actually resolved to marry Mrs. Simpson (TIME, Dec. 14). This fact had been ascertained as a "scoop...
...Duke of Windsor. Both Mrs. Simpson and the Duke separately tried to retain the services of Chauffeur George Stanley Ladbrooke (who last winter persuaded the King to buy Buicks, although Mrs. Simpson had originally wanted Packards), but Chauffeur Ladbrooke had had enough. The same applied to distinguished Major Hon. Alexander Hardinge, the anti-Simpsonite whom Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin forced upon King Edward as Private Secretary in the early days of the reign and later caused to be made a Privy Councillor. Last week exhausted Major Hardinge was beginning a three-months rest, before returning to be Private Secretary...
...Donald." This was not to say that Kidnappee Chiang, Kidnapper Chang, Financier Soong and Acting-Premier Kung were engaged in emulating the example set fortnight ago by the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin when he eased King Edward from the Throne while loudly protesting that what he had done was to try to keep His Majesty on (see p. 16). In Britain it is the simple solution which is always sought and usually found. In China nothing so takes the bloom off a proposed solution, nothing makes a Chinese statesman so unwilling to bite on it, as simplicity. There could...
...Hon. James Henry ("Jim") Thomas, who has been in scandalous eclipse since his resignation from the Cabinet after the Budget leak (TIME, June 1 et ante), is nevertheless a Privy Councilor for life and last week was out in full regalia with the 300-odd other Privy Councilors in the Throne Room of St. James's Palace to hear King George VI read his accession address: "... I take up the heavy task. . . . My first act ... to confer on [Edward] a dukedom. . . . He will henceforth be known as His Royal Highness, the Duke of Windsor. ... I declare...
...raised first by the Government but by His Majesty himself in a conversation with me some weeks ago when he first informed me of his intention to marry Mrs. Simpson whenever she should be free. . . . Deep and respectful sympathy with His Majesty at this time." As the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin is now obviously in that pivotal position he assumes when he may or may not decide to switch the policy of His Majesty's Government completely around, as in the case of Italy & Ethiopia (TIME. Dec. 30), the House senses that "Old Sealed Lips" may again extricate himself...