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...ally against the Upper Classes in a last-ditch social upheaval, or at any rate as safe custodians for immense wealth which never ceases to pile up and ultimately may be shared for the greatest good of the greatest number in the United Kingdom. Only people who are not Scottish Communists were in any way surprised last week when these intelligent Glasgow fellows welcomed Edward VIII, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain and Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India, with loyal roars of "Good old Teddy...
Thus transferred to Edward VIII was the genial nickname Scotsmen bestowed on his grandfather King Edward VII. Scottish authorities differ as to whether this venerable Sovereign was called "Good old Teddy!" because his figure somewhat resembled that of the popular Teddy Bear, created in the year of his accession (1901). From now on in Scotland 41-year-old King Edward is good old Teddy...
...tenement after tenement the King plodded up & down worn steps of Scottish granite to knk, knk softly and ask, "May I come in?" At His Majesty, 5-year-old Charlie Storrie piped incredulously, "Are you the new King...
...Daddy Judas brings him home," and "Al Jolson and Sonny Boy!" were among the more abusive comments of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition. As Father & Son stiffly and swiftly withdrew, Scottish Laborite John McGovern roared after the Secretary of State for Colonies: "He's following his Dear Old Dad, though he doesn't know where he's going...
...under the present Government would be a menace to Civilization!" In a salty plea for more efficient Imperial Defense, which evoked sensational repercussions against the Prime Minister (see col. 3), Rear Admiral Sueter put further steam into Britain's arming program by declaring that the Kingdom's Scottish Naval bases are "too near to Germany," and also exposed are all the southern English bases which should, in Rear Admiral Sueter's opinion, be removed to the west. Hoarsely he cried: "It is objected that we could not remove the southern dockyards because the wives and families...