STRONGLY OPPOSED
SUGGESTED APPOINTMENT
FOR DUKE NEW YORK, May 19. The Ottawa correspondent of the "New York Times" says that opinion strongly opposes a widely-published suggestion that the Duke of Windsor would be appointed Governor-General of Canada. This opposition is especially strong among the French Catholics in Quebec, but it is shared by people of British stock who are most firmly attached in allegiance to the Mother Country and the Crown. The suggestion was coldly and incredulously received without comment in the Press, except the Quebec "L'Action Catholique," which published a forthright editorial under the title "No Thanks." In substance, the editorial said that if the Duke of Windsor was married to a divorced woman he was not a fitting personage to occupy the Throne and he was also unacceptable as Canada's ViceroyGeneral. The opinion of "L'Action Catholique ' is that the appointment would be very unpopular and that the suggestion that it would improve CanadianAmerican relations is utterly without justification.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 118, 21 May 1945, Page 4
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