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...Lousy Insult...
...front cover page of your issue of Jan. 4 is a lousy insult to every faithful wife and mother...
...living drama of Edward VIII. It cannot be staged in Britain as a play, although George Bernard Shaw hastily wrote last week for William Randolph Hearst a strongly pro-Mrs. Simpson and pro-Edward VIII playlet in which he flung at Prime Minister Baldwin the ultimate Irish insult of tagging him "Prime Minister Goldwyn." But the drama the world wanted to see, Edvardus Rex, was acting and writing itself hour by hour as the amazing facts erupted. They formed not a stately royal play such as Laurence Housman's Victoria Regina* but a breathless cinema of swift pace...
...earth should not the King marry an American if he wants?" roars Colonel Wedgwood. "This crisis to my mind is an insult to the United States! What is it that makes an American inferior to a German?"-i. e., the Prince Consort Albert or Queen Mary, whose girlhood title was Princess of Teck in Germany, though Her Majesty was born in England. "Personally I believe the Cabinet is wrong about the Dominions," continues Colonel Wedgwood, "I believe the Dominions are behind the King, just as are the mass of people in this country!" Says beefy Lord Castlerosse, the inseparable companion...
Unhappily the discord was already far advanced. The entire German Press had been thundering for days that the Nobel award to a "traitor" was an "insult" to Germany, hinted strongly that Der Führer might break off diplomatic relations with the Kingdom of Haakon VII. In Oslo the Norwegian Foreign Minister, Dr. Halvdan Koht, had taken such precautions as he could. When the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, of which he was a member, appeared likely to pick Carl von Ossietzky, Dr. Koht resigned from the committee. Into his office last week raged the German Minister to Sweden, Prince Viktor...