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WALLIS WARFIELD SIMPSON (left) formerly of Baltimore, twice a
divorcee, whose hold on the British King’s affections has precipitated an
imperial crisis. In the middle, the King riding with his beloved niece, the
Princess Elizabeth, daughter of the Duke and Duchess of York. The child
would be next in line for the throne should Edward abdicate in favor of
York. At the right, the crown jewels that the King may put aside for the
love of Mrs. Simpson. At top left, the orb, held in the sovereign’s left hand
LONDON PAPER
INSISTS THAT
WALLY IS ILL
LONDON. Dec. 3 (I.N.S.).—Mrs.
Wallis Simpson “has not been
well for the past three or four
days,” the Press Association was
informed today, “and is confined
to her room under a doctor’s or
ders.”
A member of the Simpson
household told the same agency
that “Mrs. Simpson has no wish
to make any statement at all con
cerning reports which have ap
peared in the newspapers.”
A source close to Mrs. Simpson,
however stated that the report of
her illness is without foundation.
She is not and has not been con
fined to her room, and, although
she is naturally upset by the turn
of events, it was stated, she is
not bedridden.
The report of her illness per
sisted. however. The Evening
fit AT* SAMI •
“Mrs. Simpson has been far
from well for several weeks as
a result of nervous indigestion
brought on by worry and the
nervous strain of her present
position.
“Her condition has become
worse during the last few days.
Her friends are urging her to go
to a nursing home.”
'SUICIOOTE'
TIES TRAFFIC
(Continued from Page 1)
with a sister in the 1000 block
of Maryland Ave. N. E. The
woman said she had separated
from her husband. Leroy C. Red
man. and sped to the “suicide”
scene.
Meanwhile, Theodore Myer, of
Silver Hill, Md., came driving
over the crowded bridge. His
car was in a collision with a
patrol wagon, which would not
have been there except for the
suicide note. Myer was charged
with reckless driving at the Fifth
Precinct and posted bond of
S3OO.
At the bridge. Mrs. Redman sug
gested a visit be made to an apart
ment in the 1100 block of F St.
N. E. Obtaining a key from the
resident manager, police found
asleep in bed a man who described
himself as Leroy C. Redman.
There the matter stands, except
that Capt. Joseph Morgan, of the
Fifth precinct, promises a “thor
ough investigation.”
Reverse Sneeze
PORTLAND, Ore. (1.N.5.).
Guy W. Lang, a carpenter, sneezed
his way into a hospital. While
working in true carpenter fashion
—with a mouthful of nails—Lang
sneezed. One of the nails went
backward instead of forward, and
Lang had to submit to an opera
tion for removal of a nail from
his lung.
TelepAon* DlitrM TOOO
Liberal Press Backs Monarch
In Desire to Wed 4 Wally’
By KINGSBURY SMITH
LONDON, Dec. 3 (1.N.5.) .—War
was declared among London’s
chief newspapers today as two
leading liberal journals leaped to
the defense of King Edward in
his determination to marry Mrs.
Wallis Simpson, and strong words
were flung into the fray by the
majority opposition press.
Backing up the News-Chronicle’s
plea that the monarch be allowed
to wed the consort of his choice,
“as any other man,” the paper’s
allied Evening Star invited Prime
Minister Stanley Baldwin to re
sign if he does not like the
romance.
Challenge to Baldwin
The Star said:
“There may be better prime
ministers. There will be no
better King!”
In the most amazing and out
spoken attack on Edward’s mar
riage plans yet published, how
ever, the Church Times, the lead
ing Anglo-Catholic newspaper,
warned the King that the church
would not tolerate his marriage
to Mrs. Simpson.
The church organ said:
“If the King marries Mrs.
Simpson, the relations between
the church and state must be
fundamentally affected. •
“It is with profound sorrow
and dismay that the country has
learned of King Edward’s inten-
LEADER
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CLEMENT R. ATTLEE,
head of the British Labor
party, to whom the King
would turn, it is believed,
should the Baldwin ministry
resign. Attlee is reported to
have an agreement with
Prime Minister Baldwin to
oppose the King’s marriage
to Mrs. Simpson. Interna
tional News Photo.
at the coronation. Lower left the imperial state crown, worn on state oc
casions such as the opening of Parliament. Top right, the St. Edward’s
Crown, or the'crown of England, placed on the King’s head by the Arch
bishop of Canterbury at the coronation. Because of its great weight, it is
immediately removed and replaced by the state crown. At lower right, the
Crown of India worn by the King on his coronation as Emperor of India.
International News Photos.
• tion to marry an American lady ♦
who has divorced two husbands.
“This proposed marriage would
be a fatal blow to the prestige
of the British monarchy it
’ would imperil continuance of the
empire.
“The church cannot regard
any man, however exalted his
temporal position, as Christ's
faithful vassal and servant who
enters into a relationship which
; the church specifically con-
I demns.”
The editorial concluded with the
’ plea that Edward “at the eleventh
> hour sacrifice his own Inclinations
! for the people’s good.”
’ Papers Spread Story
Following the sen sa t ional
“break” in the story in the morn
ing papers, when English masses
en route to work were stunned to
find the streets virtually beflagged
with newspaper placards telling '
• of the romance of their King with
■ a beautiful American woman.
The Evening News printed larger
■ and larger pictures of the King
• and Mrs. Simpson as successive
i editions rolled off its presses,
! coupling the pictures with a three-
column biography and description
of the Baltimore woman.
Today was the first time the
great mass of people learned about
the romance, and the greatest con
stitutional crisis in modern history
that it caused. Every subway, bus,
and street car buzzed with excited
comment as wild rumors spread,
ranging from reports of the gov
ernment’s resignation to Edward’s
rumored intention to sacrifice the
throne of the world’s greatest em
| pire for the American woman he so
I desperately loves.
Pressure Heavy
Comment and the manner in
which the story was handled, with
nearly all implying that the King’s
private life is threatening the fu
ture of the British empire, and
with many “building up’’ the heir
presumptive Duke of York, repre
sent the greatest pressure ever
brought to bear on a King of Eng
land through the medium of the
press to acquiesce to the wishes of
his ministers.
The trend of editorial comment
and the manner in which news
stories were written were obvi
ously designed to swing public
opinion to the conviction that
Edward should sacrifice his love
for sake of the empire.
Only One Sympathizes
But the Evening Star, with an
exuberant feeling of sympathy
for the beloved King, takes the
opposite position with the News-
Chronicle.
Said the Star:
“The country and empire will
stand in health and strength
if the marriage occurs.
“Apart from other considera
tions, his subjects throughout
the world would wish him the
greatest happiness in his per
sonal relationships. Why should
he be denied the common hap
piness of mankind? We see no
insuperable reason.
CALLED 'DISLOYALTY’
“The talk of abdication does
not alarm us, but it is folly
•nd a form of disloyalty to the
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King. Even if, by honoring
Mrs. Simpson with his hand,
the King made her his consort,
the country and empire would
still stand in health and
strength.
“The King is no less a human
being because of his office. He
is as likely as other men to meet
the lady of his choice, and in
these ways—and no democrat
will lament it—the lady is likely
to be more distinguished by her
personal qualities than her
dynastic qualifications.
“Such is the case with Mrs.
Simpson, and the King is en
titled to express his desire to
make her his partner for life.”
PRIVATE LIFE OWN
Headed by the Times, the re
mainder of the press stressed that
the King’s “private inclinations”
must not be allowed to prevail if
they come into “open conflict with
public duty.”
The News-Chronicle suggested
that Edward make Mrs. Simpson
his Duchess of Cornwall:
“One of King Edward’s circle
of personal friends is Mrs. Ern
est Simpson, a lady of American
birth, who has been twice mar
ried. It is believed that it is
the King’s desire to marry her
in due course.
WALLY “QUESTIONABLE”
“The issue raised is whether
this lady is a suitable person to
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decided by the King himself or
by the government as a mouth
piece of public opinion.
“The answer is for the King
to say, like every other man,
who shall be his partner for
life.
“It is for parliament to say
who shall be Queen of this
country and to regulate the suc
cession to the throne. If the
King has the right to make his
own decision on the first point,
it is indisputable that he must
fall in with the advice of his re
sponsible ministers on a con
stitutional issue such as that in
volved in the second.
MARRIAGES CENSURED
“There arc many people in
this country who would not de
sire to see as the Queen of Eng
land a woman who has pre
viously been married. There
are some—though they must to
day be extremely few—would
see objection to an American
citizen occupying that high
rank.
“The public would, we think,
wish that he should marry a
woman of his choice, but that
he should do so in his capacity
as Duke of Cornwall. His
wife’s position would then be
that of King’s consort.”
The Times is huffy because
America showed an interest in
-the royal romance:
"American campaign of pub
licity. so long and so wisely ig-
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nored in this country, has now
reached the point at which it
goes far beyond that side of
His Maesty’s life which may
justly be held private.
“It has even gone to the
length in the last fortnight of
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predicting a marriage Incompat
bile with the throne and an
nouncing Queen Mary’s approv
al of it—suggestions which may
well seem startling to most of
the King’s subects in England,
' but which are doing infinite
harm in the United States and
the British dominions.
"The high office which His
Majesty holds is no man’s per
sonal possession. It is a sacred
trust handed down from genera
tion to generation.
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