DUKE OF WINDSOR.
MESSAGE FROM LLOYD GEORGE. (United Press Association—Copyright.) LONDON, December 24. Mr Lloyd George has sent the following message to the Duke of Windsor :—' “Best Christmas greetings from an old Minister of the Crown who holds you in high esteem, will ever regard you with deep loyal affection, deplores the shabby, stupid treatment accorded you, resents the mean unchivalrous attacks, and regrets the loss to the Empire of a monarch who sympathised with his lowliest subjects.”
MANY CHRISTMAS GIFTS. LONDON, December 23. Thousands of Christmas packages are arriving at Enzesfeld for the Duke of Windsor from all over Europe and the United States, including Queen Mary’s gift of an ivory-framed portrait of King George V. and herself. The Duke instructed that gifts of perishable food should be distributed to the local poor. “CRITICISM UNJUSTi” LORD BEAVERBROOK’S VIEWS. NEW YORK, December 24. Lord, BeaverbrOok arrived aboard the Europa to take a rest _ cure in Arizona for asthma, which he interrupted earlier in the month because of the British crisis. He asserted that the criticisms of the Duke of Windsor by prelates and the English Church were unjust, and expressed the opinion that the laws in England provide for divorce and there was no reason for such prejudice against it. Ho said that the standing of the Throne in the world was unimpaired by the constitutional crisis.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 65, 26 December 1936, Page 5
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