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...same direction. But as his nation's chief delegate to the Geneva conference he has had a bellyful of Communist negotiators. Last week he took a realistic look at the problems of sharing a planet with the Reds; in a speech at a meeting of Canadian mayors in Windsor, he said...
...more notable recruit from the ranks of bestselling authors who will join the fall parade of children's-book writers is H.R.H. the Duke of Windsor. In A King's Son, the duke will cover a subject no man knows better, his own boyhood as Prince of Wales...
...Government?' To hell with that! I want to know how I am going to pay my own expenses." Many who could remember the hey-dey of a dashing Prince of Wales were reminded of their own advancing years when, in Paris, the gaunt, slightly bent Duke of Windsor awoke one morning last week and found himself 60 years...
...morning ceremony in the throne room at Windsor Castle, Elizabeth herself adorned him with the ancient insignia of the Order: the golden collar, the "great George," the "lesser George," the Star and the Garter itself, a band of dark blue edged with gold and embroidered with the famed admonition of Edward III, "Honisoit qui mal y pense."-Later, in St. George's Chapel, Lord Halifax, Chancellor of the Order, read aloud the new knight's name and style ("Sir"), and he was led to a stall hung with the lion rampant of the Churchills...
...special invitation he had spent the previous night on the royal yacht, and scurried home in the morning to change from his Trinity House uniform to a morning coat for the pierside ceremony. After the greetings, Elizabeth, Philip and their children entered an open landau drawn by six Windsor greys for the triumphal procession past more cheering crowds back to Buckingham. Hours later, the crowds were still pressing so thickly before the floodlit palace that the Queen was obliged to leave a state dinner to greet and reassure them all over again...