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Sirs: My nomination for the Man of the Year is the choice of all Americans. The one man who has shown the qualities of leadership, initiative, and progressiveness. My nomination and that which TIME should make is the Preisdent of the United States the Hon. Franklin Delano Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 14, 1936 | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

...conference with his mother, Queen Mary, breathless York alighted at his home and rushed inside to tell his Duchess the latest with the long-legged bounce of a 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Edvardus Rex | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

...Colonel Hon. Piers Legh, Equerry. In the House of Commons meanwhile the Leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition, Laborite Clement Attlee, is said to have given his word to Mr. Baldwin that if His Majesty's Government, in forcing their "ultimatum," as it is now called, upon the King, should resign, Mr. Attlee would refuse a command from the Sovereign that he become Prime Minister. This is telephoned to the snuggery. Over cocktails the strategy of the King and Mrs. Simpson is planned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Edvardus Rex | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

London's sidewalk artists reap a harvest of Sunday coppers by drawing Mrs. Simpson in colored crayon. Meanwhile King Edward at his snuggery declines to receive his friend and recent guest in Scotland, the Hon. Esmond Cecil Harmsworth, son of the No. 2 British Press Tycoon Viscount Rothermere. In his great, mass-conscious penny-press thunders Rothermere: "I have just returned from a trip around the world. . . . Everywhere unstinted praise and admiration of our King! . . . You cannot smuggle the greatest living Englishman off the throne of England during the weekend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Edvardus Rex | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

...Hon. Esmond Cecil Harmsworth is understood to have tried to see His Majesty as a spokesman for the "King's Men," now grown to 90 M.P.'s and their leader Mr. Winston Churchill who keynotes: "If an abdication were to be hastily extorted, the outrage so committed would cast its shadow forward across many chapters of the future history of the British Empire!'' Mr. Baldwin is again with the King at the snuggery from 6:15 to 7:30. Says Viscount Craigavon, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, in mortal terror lest the Irish Free State make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Edvardus Rex | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

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