“Biggest Cinderella Story”

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

“ Biggest Cinderella Story”

SILLY AMERICAN COMMENT. Received Sunday, 9.20 p.m. NEW YORK, Dec. 4. The crisis continues to dominate the Press and newspaper circulations arc reported to bo mounting. The kind and variety of comment on the news beggars description. A great deal is plainly silly, some seriously examines the constitutional question and some vicious. Mostly, however, it is friendly and romantic. Typical of the silly stuff is a despatch from Tokio which says that Prelessor Ileki, Japan’s leading phrenologist, recommends Mrs.' Simpson to. marry a man with a wide face, a broad forehead and a heavy jaw.

Among many- leading Americans who are commenting on the situation is Henry Mencken, who says it is the biggest Cinderella story. Upton Sinclair, a second cousin of Mrs. Simpson, cabled his protest to the British Cabinet.

A group of Columbia University professors issued a symposium emphasising the possibility of a compromise with the Dominions on the conventionality rather than on tho constitutionally! of the position. Dr. Lewis Allen, who officiated at the birth of Mrs. Simpson at Monterey, Penssylvania, commented on her popularity. The New York Sun, in a leader, is one of the few papers to express concern for Queen Mary. It says her pertubation must enlist the sympathy of all. Received Sunday, 7.5 p.m. NEW YORK, Dee. 5. The World-Telegram says: “Public sentiment in a democracy is in the iniaj analysis the real ruler. It is sometimes slow to form and act, but once It is aroused it sweeps everything. And so the answer will be given by the great rank and tile which as yet has scarcely been heard from in connection with the Simpson affair.” The'Herald-Tribune, in a leader on the world issue, says: “If the sudden and incredible crisis m which the British Crown has been involved has revealed nothing else it has revealed to the thinking citizens of every nation the basic importance of the British Em pire in the world structure. The tariffing sympathy with the King is a sympathy that every human being feels with the appealing theme that the world is well lost in the cause of love. But the problem of the Empire brings other factors into play. No man can say what will happen to the distant Dominions if the powerful centralising force of the Crown is removed. Americans will not pretend to offer advice but cannot conceal their profound concern. That a solution may be found before irreparable damage is done will be the universal hope."