Word: sovereignity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Diocesan Clergy at Bradford in the North of England: The obese, cheery Bishop of Bradford who likes to eat with his servants, play golf and work crossword puzzles, castigates King Edward in words applicable either to His Majesty's keeping company with Mrs. Simpson or to the Sovereign's skimpy attendance at Church. "In his public capacity at his Coronation he stands for the English people's idea of Kingship!" booms the Bishop. "[The King] needs the grace of God. . . . We hope he is aware of his need! Some of us wish he gave more positive signs...
...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...
...official hint, and newsreels of the King & Mrs. Simpson hand-in-handing are suppressed. The official B.B.C. radio station tells prominent King's Men who offer to broadcast that "no time is available," but such commentators as Mr. Vernon Bartlett go unmistakably pro-Baldwin in references to the Sovereign who, for the first time in British history, finds on the air such statements as that he is "erratic." It is represented to His Majesty that the Baldwin Cabinet do not think he has the constitutional right to broadcast anything they have not previously approved...
...does not ask that Mrs. Simpson become queen but only his morganatic wife, should be granted by parliamentary vote or at least submitted to such a vote?'' Fleet Street: This week London presses roar with the flat prediction of Viscount Rothermere that morganatic marriage of the Sovereign will be made possible by the Mother of Parliaments and if necessary also by the daughter Parliaments of the Dominions. Yet London editors go sleepless, reporters exhaust themselves and the Cabinet is reported split three ways within itself as King Edward at his snuggery maintains a highly mobile position, ready...
...Elizabeth, Duchess of York and Albert, Duke of York prepared months ago this Christmas Card apropos the Sovereign. At a moment when everyone is coupling King Edward VIII and Mrs. Simpson, this couples King Edward III and Lady Salisbury. She has dropped her garter, courtiers are tittering, and the chivalrous King is about to master the situation by putting on the thing himself and making the Order of the Garter the most exalted form of British knighthood...