DUKE’S ROMANCE

Evening Star, Issue 22525, 18 December 1936, Page 9

DUKE’S ROMANCE

FORBIDDEN AS CINEMA THEME HOLLYWOOD MEMORANDUM Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright HOLLYWOOD, December 16. An informal memorandu'iu, circulated in cinema studios by Mr William Hays, president of the Motion Picture Corporation, forbids the use of the romance of the Duke of Windsor and Mrs Simpson as a subject for films or songs. MR SIMPSON STILL IN LONDON LONDON, December 17. (Received December 18, at 2 a.m.) The Central News Agency, which circulated the interview with Mr Simpson sent to it from Genoa, on December 16, now says Mr Simpson has not left London, and gave no interview. EX-KING'S ACTION PRAISED TRIBUTE PROM LABOUR ORGAN. LONDON, October 17. (Received, October 18, at 12.30 p.m.) The national Labour organ, the ‘ Newsletter,’ paying a tribute to exKing Edward, says editorially: “It is to the enduring credit of the exKing that, when once he was satisfied that a morganatic, marriage was impossible he forced the issue to the only ending'consistent with the public wellbeing. He might easily have claimed l the right or asserted it a duty,to wait and leave the matter undetermined until the law permitted him to marry. He could then in April have confronted his Ministers with a disastrous dilemma. Had he privately resolved to renounce neither the Throne nor marriage, he might have succeeded in getting his way at the price of inflicting an almost fatal loss on the prestige of the Monarchy and immeasurable injury to national and Imperial interests. Instead, he has allowed British feeling to fulfil the twin desire to retain unimpaired the system of Constitutional Monarchy and to have in the Monarch one who upholds certain standards of conduct. There is no mistaking that the popular verdict of all classes of society is that the ‘ woman I love ’ must not be another map’s wife.”

ROYAL TOUR IN SOUTH WALES MENTIONED IN COMMONS DEBATE. LONDON, October 17. (Received October 18, at 1.15 p.m.) King Edward VIII.’s tour of the distressed areas in South Wales and the church’s attitude towards him were mentioned during a House of Commons debate initiated by Labour members on unemployment and the means test. Mr Bevan said the Minister of Labour (Mr Brown) had declared that the unemployed had not resented his assistance scheme. Everyone was astonished during the late King’s tour of South Wales by the absence of any demonstration against the Minister of Labour. Mr Brown on that occasion took advantage of the people’s attitude towards the late King, and protected himself against the attack that was due to him. If he believed there was no resentment let him go to South Wales again without the shelter of the Royal purple. He would see plenty of resentment then. Mr M’Govern said: “If a plebiscite had been taken on the means test the Government would have been defeated just as if the issue of the late monarch had been put to the country. The King would have beaten the Cabinet. The Cabinet and the Prime Minister would have gone, but the man would have remained. Let the Bishops come out and deal with the means test and never mind Mrs Simpson. Let them deal with unemployment instead of kicking a man when he is down. Let them play the game. Let them, instead of looking on high, look down below at the starving wrecks of the means test and unemployment.” Mr Brown, replying, said no one would gather from the Labour members’ speeches that he was responsible for the payment to unemployed persons in 1935 of over £18,000,000 and in the present year of £18,000,000 of benefit and nearly £40,000,000 in assistance; nor would it be thought that £8,000,000 had been paid out in benefit and assistance in South Wales alone. There was no sinister motive behind the regulations, whose purpose was solely to obviate hardship.