DUKE OF WINDSOR
"Suggested" As G.overnorGeneral Of Canada
OPPOSITION EXPRESSED
Rec. 2 p.m. LONDON, May 20. The Times correspondent in Ottawa says: "Opinion here strongly opposes the widely published suggestion that the Duke of Windsor should be appointed the next Gover-nor-General of Canada. This opposition is especially strong among the French Catholics in Quebec, but it is shared by British stock most firmly attached in allegiance to the Mother Country and the Crown. "The suggestion was coldly and incredulously received without comment in the Press with the exception of the Quebec newspaper L'Action Catholique, which published a forthright editorial under the title, 'No Thanks.' In substance the editorial said that if the Duke of Windsor, married to a divorced woman, is an unfitting personage to occupy the Throne, he is also unacceptable as Canada's Viceroy. "The general opinion is that the appointment would be very unpopular, and the suggestion that it would improve Canadian-American relations is utterly without justification."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 118, 21 May 1945, Page 5
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