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...Regent in the event of His Majesty's "incapacitation" or death (TIME, Feb. 8) was urged with dignity in the House last week by Home Secretary Sir John Simon. As England's greatest lawyer, Sir John recalled how the insanity of King George III prevented that unfortunate monarch from assenting to the Regency Act made necessary by his madness. The present Regency Bill, proposed by King George VI in "a message signed by His Majesty's own hand," should obviate Regency Act difficulties for all time, according to Sir John Simon, and overwhelmingly the House was with...
...last week, observances were celebrated all over the White half of Spain. "He was made to walk the Via Dolorosa carrying the burden of all of us," sentimentally observed San Sebastian's typical Dvario Vasco. "He cannot walk back along this thorny path; but, a Spaniard before a Monarch, he will be the first to rejoice in a free, strong Spain." As the Saint's Day was also that of all Spaniards who happen to be named Alfonso, plenty of Reds also celebrated in Red territory-for to many a Spaniard things superficially religious are basically just Spanish...
With bona-fide critics hailing Laughton's "Rembrandt" as a satisfying sequal to his jobs with the notorious Tudor monarch and the "Mutiny on the Bounty", and with the local half-shell philosopher disagreeing with editorial policy, as is his prerogative, and damning it as a fraud and a delusion, the spectator has no where to turn. For certainly "Rembrandt" is not a great picture. Laughton, overimpressed with his own impressiveness, talks in a whisper that makes flesh creep, while the whole theme of the artist's life seems too simple for him and yet too deep, and it evades...
Your report of the British monarch's abdication in your Dec. 21 issue was one of your masterpieces. It was accurate (according to my best information). It was unprejudiced. And I prophesy that history will view the affair with the same perspective you have so ably employed...
...There is some danger," wrote the Archbishop of York, "that regret for the loss of the brilliant qualities and sympathy for a monarch who in critical days was confronted with a most painful choice, may divert our attention from the fact that the occasion for this choice ought never to have arisen. The harm was not done in December or even in October when he announced his intention of marriage to the Prime Minister, but much earlier...