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...Duke of Windsor, as Admiral of the Fleet, Field Marshal, Marshal of the Royal Air Force. King George VI sent a personal emissary to Cannes to invite him and the woman he thought worth a throne to come home, sent a destroyer to a secret Channel port to fetch him. The Duke & Duchess of Kent offered him their town house. But this did not mean that the royal family planned to take the unroyal Duchess to its bosom...
...Canada also scrambled aboard last week, requested King George VI to proclaim that "a state of war exists between Canada and Germany"-which he promptly did. For the time being, Canada will participate in three ways: ship munitions to England, feed airmen into the Royal Air Force, defend herself. The last of these she was pitifully unprepared...
...World War II, King George VI and Prime Minister Chamberlain were quick to invoke God's blessings on their cause. Last week the Germans got around to doing the same. A prayer and a proclamation were issued by Dr. Friedrich Werner, who, in order to hold his job as head of the German Evangelical Church, must lick contemptuous Nazi boots. Excerpt from the prayer: "Bless our armed forces on land, sea and air. Bless our actions and labors on the German land and bless and protect our Führer as you have hitherto blessed and preserved him. ..." Excerpt...
King George VI said, "In this grave hour, perhaps the most fateful in our history, I send to every household of my peoples, both at home and overseas, this message, spoken with the same depths of feeling for each one of you as if I were able to cross your thresholds and speak to you myself...
Young King George VI drew a deep breath and went on, "We have been forced into a conflict, for we are called, with our allies, to meet the challenge of a principle which, if it were to prevail, would be fatal to any civilized order in the world...