HIS OWN LIFE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 19 December 1936, Page 9

HIS OWN LIFE

DUKE OF WINDSOR’S RIGHTS AS A PRIVATE CITIZEN AMERICAN COMMENT (United P.ress Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 19th December, 8.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, 18th December. “The Times” in a leader compares ex-King Edward’s request to the newspapers to permit him to live as a private citizen, with Colonel Lindbergh’s. It points out that the latter’s wish was respected with only a few exceptions. “Certainly the Duke of Windsor is entitled to as much. Whether he was well or ill-advised, he has made a most extraordinary and dramatic renunciation in order to exchange royalty for privacy and seek personal happiness. The least a sympathetic, if wondering, world can do is to accord him the right to live his own life.”

A POPULAR RESIDENT LONDON, 18th December. The papers publish a photograph of the Duke of Windsor in plus four, a green pullover and muffler, and smoking a pipe, when golfing with the baroness and hostess. Vienna messages state that since it was first suggested that he would settle in Austria-Hungary the Duke of Windsor has been offered 67 castles, so keen is the nobility’s desire to have him as a permanent resident. PRESENTS RETURNED VIENNA, 17th December. A veterinary surgeon was called in to , attend to the Duke of Windsor: Cairn terrier, which was worsted in a fight with Baroness Rothschild’s dog. The fight might have ended fatally if the Duke had not rescued his pet. Hundreds of presents are arriving at the castle, including a puppy and many cases of wine for the Duke of Windsor, who ordered them to be returned to the donors. NO SMILE FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS (Received 19th December, 10.30 a.m.) VIENNA, 18th December. The Duke of Windsor kept his promise to see photographers. He was dressed in a sports coat and did not wear a hat. He posed for ten minutes and gravely bowed and said: “I think that is enough.” He was pale and serious, and all attempts to make him smile failed.