Evening Star Newspaper, December 11, 1936, Page 5

OVER ABDIGATION Declares, However, Spirit of Caim Determination Still Rules. B the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 11.—Her voice audibly breaking in sobs of emo- tion, Nancy, Lady Astor, said in & broadcast from London last night that King Edward's placing of “personal affection above public duty” has caused “unhappiness in the hearts of all his majesty’s subjects.” “But underneath that unhappiness,” sald the American-born woman, who was the first of her sex admitted to Parliament, “remains the same spirit of ocalm determination which has characterized the Anglo-Saxon race in every emergency. “Those who will not obey the rules, can't rule,” she said, “and believe me, in this crisis, tragic though it has been, it has left us not weaker, but o The daughter of the Virginia Lang- hornes, who made her life career in England, added that all parties stood solidly behind the government. “There was no class issue, but fundamentally & moral one,” she said. “Mrs. Simpson was rejected because of her previous history,” said Lady Astor. “The prime minister made 1t quite clear that the dominions showed objection to the King's marriage to Mrs, Simpson * * * not because she is not of royal blood nor because she was me.” ital social leader. tragedy. an American.” New King Is Example of Grit That Overcame All Obstacles Inferiority Complex, Stuttering and Poor Health Conquered by Perse- verance of Albert. BY ROGER D. GREENE, Associated Press Staff Writer. NEW YORK, December 11.—Brit- 8in’s new King “Bertie,” who likes to knit and can cast an iron plate in a smelting factory, steps into the world spotlight today as a perfect example of bulldog grit overcoming terrific obstacles. He had a brooding inferiority com- plex. He stuttered. He had wretched health He ocouldn't make friends—just eouldn’t “warm up.” He excelled at nothing. Nobody noticed him, in a room ori & crowd. Shy, he simply didn't “reg- | dster.” Even now, at the glittering climax of his “success story,” he gets the job only because his brother gave it up. But down the years, doomed to understudy his glimorous brother, in his quiet, self-effacing way. he per- fected his role with a dogged courage that must command admiration. Today, at the pinnacie. he has beatenr the odds. If ever 2 man was self-made, the records shows ‘t is Albert Frederick Arthur George, ‘by the grace of God"—and King Ed- ‘ward—“of Great Britain, Ireland and the dominions beyond the seas, King defender of the faith, Emperor of India.” The story has few dazzling chap- ters. His “Prince Charming” brother did all the dazzling for the Windsor family. Albert, in the best British tradition, “muddled through.” He didn't stand out. During the World War he saw action aboard the battleship Collingwood at the battle of Jutland. After the smoke of bat-| tle cleared, all the officers in charge | could recall about him was: “Oh, yes, | I remember—he made cocoa, as usual, for me and the gun crew.” He was a studious type, but never & scholar; a hard-playing, all-around athlete, but never outstanding. “The Duke of York,” relates Capt. G. H. Drummond, who often enter- tained the royal sons of George V while hunting with the Pytchley pack, “came down to my place with two of his brothers, and you can imagine my feelings when we put him on a hunter Zor a trial run ’round the field. “Like the character in ‘Jorrocks,’ he sat a horse with ease, elegance and firmness—until the animal moved. Then he generally fell off.” He couldn't make friends. “The greatest compliment ever paid to me,” he once said wistfully, “was a camp boy's remark that I was a ‘human being.’ " Without being regally haughty, he simply lacked the spontaneous warmth to make him anything like the good mixer Edward is. He had wretched health. He suf- fered several breakdowns and nearly died of perforated duodenal ulcers, which necessitated two operations. His stuttering drove him into a shell, and it was not until after his marriage, when he was nearly 30 years old, that he could control his affliction sufficiently to make public speeches. And his inferiority complex, brought on by his stammering and by his life- long role of “second fiddle” to the brilliant Edward, once found tongue in these words: “I seem to place an evil spell on any machine in which I take an especial interest,” he spoke half whimsically, half in earnest, during an inspection tour of a factory. “Once, to my surprise and dismay, I was dropped in a lift (elevator). An- other time a supposedly fool-proof stamping machine ejected 40 un- stamped envelopes for my benefit. The threads of looms, at times, break as I approach them. “In spite of these things, employ- ers, I am glad to find, are still ready to welcome me in their midst.” Another time—an oft-told tale but illustrative of his realization of short- comings—he exclaimed, wryly in pub- le: “My chief claim to fame seems to | be that I am the father of Princess | Elizabeth.” Today, the tall, grave-mannered second son of George V can look back on victory over all these “bogeys.” He has trampled the inferiority complex to & point where he is per- fectly at ease, level-gazed, command- ing. He stutters only occasionally. He is by far the most physically fit of the four royal brothers. He has learned to make friends. By grinding perserverance, he has become an excellent horseman, s e Yoy s Shep 1319-21 F Street N.W. 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Finally, the crowning touch for the “understudy”—the son nobody noticed much, today has the eyes of the en- tire world upon him. Sugeess story—he is the King! a New-i(in g_becides Title to Be Given Brother Edward BY the Associated Press. LONDON, December 11.—The new British King will decide what title his abdicated brother will bear, it was disclosed today in the House of Com- mons. Sir Donald Somervell, attorney gen- | eral, told the members the “new King | would deal with that when the time | comes.” | The attorney general's declaration was made in response to a question put by Hastings Lees-Smith, Laborite. | Edward will cease to be Edward VIII, by the grace of God, of Great Britai | Ireland and the dominions beyond the | peror of India. Henceforth he must be content with all, it probably will be chosen from one of ‘the eight peerages he held as King. He could choose any of his dukedoms: Cornwall, Lancaster, Normandy or Rothesay. Or he might take & more humble earldom, becoming the Earl of Chester or the Earl of Carrick. Even lower in the aristocratic scale he might decide to be the Baron of Renfrew or the Lord of the Isles. He could even decide on just plain David Windsor. | No longer will he be prince and great steward of Scotland. The highest ranks in the empire's fighting services likewise pass to his | successor. Forty-four years seas King, defender of the faith, Em- | some simpler title. If he takes one at | SADDENS PRESS British Editors Say Choice Was Between Service and Individualism, By the Associated Press. LONDON, December 11.—The Brit- ish press today marked with regret the abdication of King Edward VIIL The London News Chronicle: “The people felt that Edward had it in him to be a great King. But* when the supreme decision came between personal choice and public duty he lacked just the requisite fiber to stay the tremendous course. It had to be all or nothing. Only he himself can ever know the intolerable conflict within his own breast or what precise prompting led him at length to the decision which the whole nation so deplores.” The Edinburgh Scotsman: “This should not have been the end. There ought to have been a point at which his majesty himself felt he was tread- ing a dangerous path. Even within the past week he might have put per- sonal inclination aside and dedicated himself anew as his peoples hoped and wished to the service of his country and his empire.” The Birmingham Paily Post: “He abdicated because in the matter of his contemplated marriage he coul® neither accept the advice of his min- isters nor hope that any alternative ministry would advise him differently, and because within the area of the British commonwealth ministerial ad- vice on matters of concern to the state must always prevall.” The Liverpool Post: “We have passed through a dangerous time; we must try to forget and turn to the next tasks, of which there are many to hand.” The Daily Telegraph: “The price of renunciation astounds the world. * * * A King who had won so com- pletely the affections of his people might have asked of them almost anything and they would have given it with both hands. But there is al- ways the something which duty must deny, and it will be the abiding grief to the thousands who have loved the King that the one thing he asked, not merely of his ministers, but through his ministers of them, was a marriage which he deems necessary for his hap- piness, but which they judged to be disastrous to crown and realm.” The Leeds Mercury: “The personal tragedy, in whose bitterness we all share, has-not been allowed to become a national calamity.” The London Daily Mirror: “We must rally round the King's successor. His task is tremendous. We believe he will face it bravely. It is for him to unite us all again with a high sense of public duty which may in time efface the painful memory of these days of humiliation, anxiety and grief.” The Blackshirt (British Fascist publication): “The King has left the throne. He has left it because poli= ticians faced him with a cruel choice between the nation and the woman | he loved. We cannot blame the King's brother who now assumes the burden which the King lays down, and he will | receive our loyalty in accord with the consistent policy of this movement to be loyal to.the &rown not only in fair weather, but alsg in foul.” The Londen Times: “They pro- foundly misunderstood the earlier signs of division in this country who | represented it as an issue between | ‘the people’s King’ and a hidebound | set of aristocrats and ecclesiastics. It | would be far more accurate to say that his majesty’s circle was too large- | ly composed of men and women, some | of them of high birth and all of them remote from ‘the people’ who cared | less his his welfare than for their own amusement. | “The real clash was between the thoughtlessness of an exotic society and the hard core of British tradition RELIABILITY of adhering to rigid principles of value have re- sulted in a policy that protects those who wish to insure their diamond investment. 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SUNDLUN, President 44 Years at 935 F St. AN UNRIVALLED RECORD OF THESE LONG YEARS OF PROGRESS AT THIS ADDRESS classes in this country, but it must also be said in fairness that none of us can realize how hard is the path of & king in choosing good friends. “That amid all his grest qualities there was also something lacking in himself is sufficlently shown by.the unprecedented decision recorded this morning, for it is proof of rather than of strength that it must have been reached in the face of very human reluctance to abandon the position which afforded him so many proofs of success.” The Cardiff Western Mail: “The na- tion will not be disposed to prolong the agony of painful parting * * * It will accord King Edward a farewell salute and pass on to greet nis suc- ocessor.” The London Morning Post: “They (the people) sin-crely hope he may find the happiness which he seeks.” The Dublin Irish Independent: “His strange infatiation ruined what might have been a fine career.” The Plymouth Western Morning News: “It will take place ‘as one of history’s greatest romances.” ‘The London Daily Express: “Well, we have lost a good King, who might have been s great King, ome with charm, personality anA understand- ing.** o have & new King. It is #aid he will bear the name George VI. Nobody doubts he will show the same high character worth as his father. Dealing with’ Simpson, the paper continued editorially: “As for the proposition that the King ought not to marry s woman who has divorced her husband, that, if you like, if untenable. Are you going to hold it against her that she made use of the law of the land? She has been the injured party. In the eyes of justice she bears no guilt.” The London Dally Herald: “The affection which this democratic people feels for its King springs only from this: That he serves rather than rules, that he goes with no faction, but stands as representative of all and that above all he has no political authority independent of that of his popularly elected ministers. And a new King takes the throne at a mo- ment n the nation has made it more plan than ever that it will not concelve of kingship on any other terms.” The Manchester Guardian: “Waye ward and self-willed Edward may have been bu: let cne thing be re- membered. He freely admitted and shouldered w burden from his own past, thereby displaying the one quale ity that rede>ms waywardness from weakness, the kingly qualitv of cour- age as it is to show to all sorts and conditions of men.” The Dundee Courler and Adver- tiser: “The deminant opinion today formed in ell charity 15 that somee thing essen:ial for the role of kinge ship was fatally lacking in the chare acter of Kiny Edward despite his charm and energetic goodwill.” “"Here’s where 1 pull one out of the bag for the poor STARTING TODAY —for one week! 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