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...House of Commons swiftly returned a "humble address to the King" assuring George VI that it would do as he asked with all speed, but this applies only to the United Kingdom and its Crown colonies. George VI is in each Dominion separately King, and no act of the Mother of Parliaments can settle in London who is to be Regent as far as Ottawa, Canberra, Wellington, Cape Town or Dublin are concerned...
Strike-badgered General Motors scarcely had time to notice this week that a Scottish member of its board, hearty Sir Harry Duncan McGowan, was raised to the peerage as a Baron by His Majesty King George VI, who released last week his first Honors List. Sir Harry, easily the biggest Briton on the list, was knighted in 1918 for putting through efficient mergers of munitions firms. He has long been rated "the highest salaried industrialist in Great Britain," a key figure in Rearmament today, and is Board Chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries...
Thos. Cook & Son Ltd. scored with a knighthood to Great-Grandson Thomas Cook, 34, "the youngest knight dubbed since 1911"; British Broadcasting Corp. with knighthood for its musical director, Dr. Adrian Cedric Boult; and among the 53 others knighted were George VI's private secretary, Major the Hon. Alexander Henry Louis Hardinge, and Nigel Leslie Campbell, principal banking trustee for the $10,000,000 philanthropic fund just given by Motor Maker Lord Nuffield to succor Britain's unemployed and honor Stanley Baldwin for his handling of the Constitutional Crisis (TIME, Jan. 4). Last week Nuffield got nothing...
...whether this Honors List, which ordinarily would have come out on New Year's Day, was just about as it would have been if issued by King Edward, or had been severely pruned of numbers of his friends. Various stars and orders were handed by George VI to such people as the captain of the yacht on which Edward & Mrs. Simpson cruised; to the most convivial of the ex-King's equerries, Major Sir John ("Jackie") Renton Aird; and to Edward VIII's air pilot, Wing Commander Edward Hedley ("Mouse") Fielden. When famed "Mouse" did not elect...
...buzzing two-seater sport car. They zipped to a suburban station and Britain's most famed train, The Flying Scotsman, halted to take them aboard, sped them to honeymoon on the estate of his mother, a Maxwell. Short is their Scottish holiday, for conducting the Coronation of George VI is an hereditary duty which the Duke of Norfolk must discharge, and Westminster Abbey has already been closed for preparations and rehearsals...