DUKE OF WINDSOR
GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF CANADA
SUGGESTION COOLLY RECEIVED (Rec. 11.10 p.m.) NEW YORK, May 19. The Times’ Ottawa correspondent says that opinion here strongly opposes the widely-published suggestion that the Duke of Windsor would be appointed Governor-General. This opposition is especially strong among French Catholics in Quebec, but it is shared by British stock most firmly attached in allegiance to the Mother Country and the Crown.
The suggestion was coldly and incredulously received without comment in the press excepting the Quebec L’Action Catholique which published a forthright editorial under the title “No Thanks.” In substance the editorial said: If the Duke of Windsor, married to a divorced woman, is an unfitting personage to occupy the Throne, he is also unacceptable as Canada’s Viceroy.”. General oninion is that the appointment would be very unpopular, and the suggestion that it would improve Canadian-American relations is utterly without justification.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25849, 21 May 1945, Page 5
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