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...More than cheap power is at stake; a new element of democratic decency can be introduced into public life. The sovereign government is under obligation not to make capricious or arbitrary use of its power but to act with restraint and fairness and without a spirit of retaliation. But what if the power companies reject such an approach? . . . Public authorities should not give up any powers of compulsion until a reasonable process of solution has been worked out and well established. . . . But the utilities have a right to know what it is that is asked of them and what...
...world had to be kept unsatisfied day after agonizing day if good great Mr. Baldwin was to wear down and tame his passionate and obstinate King Emperor. In his own time, and it seemed an outrageously long time, Mr. Baldwin, who is 69, last week entirely tamed a Sovereign of 42, recalling him to that state of dignity (see p. 15) minus which a King Emperor is not worth to Great Britain the millions per year he costs, and securing his abdication...
...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...