Word: windsors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Upon new King George called last week "The Next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom," as many call hawk-nosed, hawk-minded Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain. Meanwhile a bona fide offer of $1,000,000 to go to Hollywood had been cabled to the Duke of Windsor & Mrs. Simpson (see p. 31) and, however remote acceptance was from their minds, it behooved the United Kingdom not to be niggardly with the Duke. At 5%, the interest on $1,000,000 is $50,000 per year and the Chancellor of the Exchequer was presently reported to have agreed with...
Meanwhile the real Mrs. Simpson in Cannes continued to receive sackfuls of most vile letters from England, suddenly began to get from the U. S. for the first time sackfuls of friendly letters. Apparently these were written by people who listened to the abdication broadcast of the Duke of Windsor, a broadcast so moving that last week the official B. B. C. in London for the first time refused to let His Master's Voice Ltd. make and sell in England phonograph records of a royal broadcast.* It would be a travesty of British facts not to say roundly...
...these circumstances neither Mrs. Simpson's having begun to go to select little bridge parties in Cannes last week, nor the Duke of Windsor's convalescence from his abdication jitters in the hands of Austrian doctors seemed exactly news (see p. 31). In a formal statement, which badgered Mrs. Simpson released at Cannes, it was stated that "no rift of any sort" had come between herself and the Duke of Windsor. In the Austrian Castle whose chatelaine is beauteous Baroness Rothschild, the Duke several times each day last week telephoned Mrs. Simpson...
This was not to say that no correspondent had succeeded last week in establishing sound news pipelines into the Rothschild Castle, but it was to say that as yet 95% of stories printed about the Duke of Windsor were obvious, blatant fakes. They unmasked to some hitherto naive editors the whole Vienna school of whipped-cream journalism, and (which will prove much more expensive) they unmasked it to the world public as well. Hereafter money is going to be spent getting much nearer to the facts of life in each royal Balkan sty and snuggery...
...name which chiefly emerged from the Windsor & Simpson Story-of-the-Year with credit was the name of William Randolph Hearst. There have been only two real Simpson scoops and Mr, Hearst personally scored Scoop No. i when he learned in England from King Edward that His Majesty was not just fooling around but was firm in his resolve to marry (TIME, Nov. 2). Scoop No. 2 is under stood to have been secured for Mr. Hearst by Miss Marion Davies in transatlantic conversation with her friend Mrs. Ernest Simpson. This scoop was the information that, while Edward VIII...