Mrs Simpson on the Riviera

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 289, 7 December 1936, Page 7

Mrs Simpson on the Riviera

Traveled Under Assumed Maine

“KING IS THE ONLY JUDGE’ 0

Received Sunday, 9.20 p.m. LONDON, Dec. 5.

The Daily Mail’s correspondent at Blois says soon after her arrival Mrs. Simpson put through a telephone call to London and remained talking for nearly half an hour.

The Paris journal “Soir” published an interview with Mrs. Simpson whom the reporter told all France was following her story with the greatest interest. She replied: “You Frenchmen are most sympathetic but most annoying. I have been unable to sleep for tho last two days. At the last hotel I stayed there were 24 journalists. I am, not getting much rest.’’

Replying to a further question, she said: “I cannot make a statement. Tho King is the only judge. ’ ’ Though it is assumed Mrs. Simpson spent the night at the Hotel de Franco at Bois on the River Loire, the British United Press says she eluded tho watchers at 1.15 a.m. and left by car along the Bordeaux road which leads to Biarritz. The police kept up the pretence of guarding the hotel long after she had left, giving her three hours’ start on the newspapermen's escort. A Nice message states that Mrs. Simpson is expected at her friend Mrs. Herman Rogers’ villa at Cannes. Eight large trunks and five valises arrived on the morning Riviera express labelled “Miss Burke,” but bearing the initials W.W.S.

Special Telephone for CallingLondon Received Sunday, 9.50 p.m. CANNES, Dec. 6. Mrs. Simpson concluded a daylong dash to Southern Erance taking at full speed at 11.35 p.m. the narrow lane leading to Mrs. Herman Rogers' villa, “Lou Vei,” and scattering a hundred newspapermen and photographers awaiting her arrival. She lunched at Vienne where she left the hotel by tho back door and changed motor-cars as the one she had hitherto occupied was over-familiar. She ate a cold dinner in her car at Avignon fearing to meet tho journalists. A large crowd of inhabitants watched her arrival at Cannes. English and French detectives are now guarding the gates of the villa. Workmen installed a special telephone which enabled Airs. Simpson to talk with London immediately she arrived.

Monarchy Above Monarch DOMINIONS POINT THE WAY. Received Sunday, 9.50 p.m. CAPE TOWN, Dec. 5. The Cape Argus says: “The only alternatives are to abandon the marriage in deference to the people’s wishes or abdicate. The problem is terribly distressing and the Empire's sympathy will go out to the King in his efforts to select the right course.” The Cape Times, supporting Mr. Baldwin’s statement in the Commons, points out that the Dominions without a dissentient note claim that it is the King’s duty to the Empire peoples to realise that the monarchy is a deeper concern to his subjects than the monarch.

“There is no reason to assume that the British Cabinet will resign," said General Hertzog. “After my meeting at Smithfield to-morrow I will return immediately to Pretoria. Whether a Cabinet meeting will be necessary I can only be able to say later. It appears at the moment that this will be the case."

England’s Right to Choose Her Queen Received Sunday, 9.50 p.m. WHITE PLAINS (New York), Dec. 4. Mr. Wedgwood, president of the Wedgwood Potteries, says: “I sympathise with the King but his first duty is to his country-. England has the right to chooso her Queen."

Royal Broadcast OFFICIALS HELD IN READINESS. REPORT FROM NEW Y'ORK. NEW YORK, Dec. 4. The London correspondent of thu New York Times states that the officials of the British Broadcasting Corporation are being held in readiness to receive in the next 48 hours a notilica tion from Buckingham Palace that the King desires to broadcast to the nation. It is reported that Sir John Reith, Director-General of the Corporation, has already perfected plans for a hookup to carry the King’s voice to the farthest corners of the Empire. It is believed that the Government is unable to interfere with the King’s wish, since the Corporation is constituted under Royal Charter and virtually is operating at the King’s pleasure.

German Silence Eeceived Sunday, 8.5 p.m. LONDON, Dec. 5. The newspapers throughout Europe continue to comment, generally -.ig for a settlement and expressing sympathy with his Majesty and Britons, except in Germany where the news is still unpublished, and Yugoslavia where

comment is forbidden, also in Roumama where King Carol has prohibited the papers mentioning Mrs. Simpson and has directed that the constitutional crisis be attributed to unemployment problems. The Soviet press publishes reports of the crisis with Mrs. Simpson’s name but makes no comment.