THE DUKE'S BROADCAST.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 108, 10 May 1939, Page 10

THE DUKE'S BROADCAST.

Speaking, as he said, wholly for himself, and simply as one who was a soldier in the last war, the Duke of Windsor on Monday broadcast to the United States a moving appeal fd*r peace. He .spoke from the fortress of Verdun, the scene of one of the most dreadful battles of the last war, and he appealed to men everywhere, but particularly to the leaders of nations, to avert the possibility of the recurrence of such horrors. Was there in this appeal nnything "untimely , * or "inappropriate"! It was made in response to an invitation to the Duke to speak "in the light of world conditions," and world conditions justify every word he said. Yet, because of an j official attitude never expressly avowed, but j obviously apparent, the ex-King of Great , Britain is debarred from addressing his appeal directly to the people in Great Britain and to British people in Canada. It is a queer, unhappy situation, nnd a way .should I be found to end it. The loyalty of British j people to King George VI. is not diminished ', in the slightest because of the fact that, ' like the Americans, they retain a keen interest in the personality of the Duke of Windsor. j