Word: windsors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hitched to the crack Nord Express out of Paris for Berlin, a privately chartered sleeping car was hailed in the dead of night at Cologne this week with shouts of "Heil Windsor!" Sliding into Berlin early next morning, the Duke and Duchess were met on the platform by Nazi Labor Front Leader Dr. Robert Ley who presented a bouquet of red roses. Excited German women cried "We schön sie aussieht" ("how well she looks!") while the Duchess' two maids pointed out to porters her 30 pieces of luggage, most of it still labeled "W. S." (Wallis Simpson...
...winter opening was a black cocktail dress with shortish skirt, black rose-shaped buttons, a high V neck and lips of bright red floss embroidered on the pockets of the short jacket. Mrs. Reginald Fellowes, leader of London's cafe set and onetime friend of the Duke of Windsor, liked it and bought it. So last week did Mrs. Charles Crocker of Manhattan; Mrs. D. J. Sayman of St. Louis; Mrs. Herbert Mavre of Glencoe, Ill.; Mme Alfira de Riglos of Buenos Aires; Mrs. Charles Hanna of Cairo; Mlle Jean Mastbaum of Paris...
...When all communications between the U. S. and Europe are cut off. when radios go dead, when we are forbidden by decree to speak the name of Jesus, when David, Duke of Windsor, takes an airplane to Jerusalem, then we will know the conflict is at hand...
British newsorgans continued meantime to devote more & more space to the ex-King and his wife. The evening Star reported last week that the couple propose to devote their future to social work in England as soon as "calumnies and slander" have abated. A stanch little pro-Windsor party in Britain, who would like nothing better, regarded it as a favorable omen that the Duke last week sent $500 to a Leicestershire agricultural society for a new fair ground and the Duchess $25 to a fund for a new church school in Warfield, Berkshire, from which one of her ancestors...
...British Government, however, still showed no signs of encouraging the prodigal's return. In a revised list of royal warrants giving merchants the right to say "By Appointment to His Royal Highness So-and-So" Windsor's name was left out, though those of his younger brothers, Kent and Gloucester were both included...