DUKE OF WINDSOR TO MAKE HOUSING TOUR.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 235, 4 October 1937, Page 7

DUKE OF WINDSOR TO MAKE HOUSING TOUR.

GERMANY AND USA Keen Interest in Workers' Welfare Continues. OFFICIAL STATEMENT. t'nlred Tress Association.—Copyright. (Received 12.30 p.m.) TARIS, October 3. ft; is officially stated that the Duke arid Duchess of Windsor will shortly visit Germany and the United States. They will make a study of housing ;inil labour conditions. Th« statement ndds that the Duke Inis always interested himself in the well being of the workers and looks forward to gaining further experience.

RUSH TO SEE DUKE. Police Called to Clear Paris Streets. MINISTERIAL VISITOR. LONDON, October 1. "Aa one English gentleman meeting mother," the British War Minister, Mr. L. Hore-Belisha, visited the Duke of Windsor in Paris. In other words, though it was the first meeting between the Duke and a British Cabinet Minister »ince the abdication, Mr. Hore-Belisha went privately and not in any official capacity.

The meeting seemed to strengthen Paris rumours that the Duke was contemplating an early return to England, but the Duke later told a friend: "I am not returning to England this winter." The Duke spent the afternoon conferring with Mr. Carter, chief clerk and accountant of the Privy Purse Office, who went specially to Paris to discuss legal and financial business with him. The Duke spends much of his time in his hotel suite reading and attending to affairs. Tin Duchess' dressmaker has sent models to the hotel for approval. The Duchess spent the afternoon fitting dresses, the Duke giving advice on materials and style. Gendarmes dragged women, who were cheering and waving, from the runningboard of their car, when the Duke and Duchesrf left their hotel. Girls waited hours, hoping to see the Duchess. Police were finally called to clear the street. Writing in the "Daily Mirror," Godfrey Winn says: "From the point of view of political common sense, if nothing else, it is extremely unwise that our former King should be compelled to wander from one European country to another, guarded by foreign policemen and feted by the rabble wherever he goes, when all he asks is to retire into the private life of a country gentleman in hit own Motherland.

"A* long as lie is not allowed to do fto, he will be regarded as the 'Prince across the water,' and, however much he instinctively protests against it, as a pretender to the throne of England. He will be romanticised into another Bonnie Prince Charlie. "Apart from that danger, there is our duty to someone who, whatever else lie did, certainly served his country magnificently for many years."

OFFER TO CHAPLAIN. 44 Underworld Cathedral" in the Bowery. "BBOKE," BUT A SUOOESS. LONDON, September 30. An offer to superintend a "cathedral of the underworld" in New York's Bowery is being considered by the Rev. Robert Anderson Jardine, the Duke of Windsor's chaplain. He made the announcement upon his arrival at Plymouth,' after his lecturing and preaching tour of the United States.

Although he confessed that he was "broke," he denied that his tour had heen a failure. "I did not go to America to make money," he told his interviewers. "I went there to preach, and I never had fewer than 1000 in my audiences. I could have etayed in the States for another year." Mrs. Jardine said: "I agree with everything that my husband has done. I do not know what the future holds for us, but whatever he decides will have my support." Mr. Jardine relinquished his living of St. Paul's Church, Darlington, on October 1.