SUDDEN TRIP.
DUKE OF WINDSOR. Visit President Roosevelt In Caribbean. United Pre*# Association.—Copyright. (Reed. 10 a.m.) NEW YORK, Dec. 13. It is officially announced that the J>uke of Windsor left Miami, Florida, this morning in an American naval aeroplane, en route 10 meet President Roosevelt, on board U.S.S. heaw crui.-er Tuscaloosa, which is carrying the President on a tour of defence iia-es. i lie Duke «aid: "I am -orry I cannot make a statement. but to-dav I am entirely in the hands of the naTj. 1 am sure they will take good care of me." An earlier report from Miami stated tliiit it «a- learned that the Duke of \\ ind«or would be <;iven an opj»ortunity ■>f aro-jitin? or declining the appointment of British Ambassador to the I nited States before the post wa* offered to anyone else. The Duke, ii was stated, might have & conference with President Roosevelt on Friday on general matters, 'in which the .4m-ha->adorship was bound to be a Official »-juree = veie ietk—nt. Mr. Anthony Eden is beiti^ widely a= a lik< iv .-u.-cesfOT to the late I>ifd Lmhian. especially Mr. Eden is widely popular in the United ."jtatea.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 297, 14 December 1940, Page 9
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