SLIGHT CHILL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19199, 16 December 1936, Page 5

SLIGHT CHILL

THE DUKE OF WINDSOR QUIETUDE APPRECIATED POSSIBLE NEW HOME CASTLE NEGOTIATTONS (Elec. Tel. Copyright —United Press Assn.) (Ree. Dec. Hi, 12 noon.) LONDON, Dec. 15. A message from Vienna states that (lie Duke of Windsor is suffering from a slight, chill and is confined to his room. Lord Brownlow remained at Enzesfold Castle overnight. During the evening the Duke and Lord Brownlow watched films showing the abdication and proclamation scenes. Although suffering from a cold, the Duke said he was feeling perfectly well and was not contemplating going to Vienna for medical advice. Ho adds that he greatly appreciates the quietude he now is enjoying. Lord Brownlow is returning to Cannes to-day with letters from the Duke of Windsor. It is reliably reported that the Duke intends renting a house at Kitzbuehcl, in the Austrian Tyrol till further notice. A Budapest messago says it is reported that the Duke is negotiating for the purchase of Count Ziehy’s castle and 4000 acres situated eight miles south of the capital. MRS. SIMPSON SHIELDED INQUISITIVE CROWDS VISIT PAID TO CONSUL (Reed. Dec. 16, noon.) LONDON, Dec. 15. It is reported from Cannes that, accompanied by Mr. Herman Rogers and his wife and a detective, Mrs. Ernest Simpson drove to Nice to-day and visited the United States Consul, who renewed her passport. Ten cars containing journalists trailed the party. Mrs. Simpson subsequently shopped in Cannes, frustrating cameramen bv raising her umbrella. Police augmented the screen by spreading out their capes to keep off the inquisitive crowd. The Cannes correspondent of the Daily Mail says that Mrs. Simpson is receiving 500 letters a day, many of a menacing character. The Duke of Windsor telephones every night, and often as late as 3 o’clock’in the morning to Mrs. Simpson. She does not, retire until the call comes through.

OFFER FROM HOLLYWOOD BIG FEE AND MANSION FILM “RIGHT TO LOVE” LONDON, Dec. L'». A message from Hollywood states that Mr. Arthur Wenzel, film producer, has cabled to the Duke of Windsor an offer of .€200,000 and a mansion if he will proceed to Hollywood with Mrs. Ernest Simpson and act in a film to be called “The Right to Love.” GRAMOPHONE TRADE RECORDS OF SPEECH NEW YORK, Dec. 14. Gramophone shops have large advertisements in the newspapers offering records of ex-King Edward’s speech, being the “actual broadcast perfectly recorded.” A message from Blue Ridge Summit (Pennsylvania) says that souvenir hunters are carrying away bits of the house in which Mrs. Ernest Simpson was born, the owners being compelled to guard the building, which is unoccupied.

CRITICISM BY PRIMATE

FLOOD OF PROTEST - LETTERS TO PRESS LONDON, Dee. 14. With reference to the comment by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Cosmo Lung, concerning the Duke of Windsor, Colonel J. C. Wedgwood, the Labour member of the House of Commons for Neweastle-under-Lynne, expressed a wish to-day that he could put a question to the House asking whether the Archbishop’s “sermon on King Edward A r IIT and ‘his social circle’ could be circulated as a Parliamentary paper for the information of members and the improvement of their morals.” The lobbies are busily commenting on the Archbishop’s address, and the matter will probably be raised on Thursday, when the broadcasting charter is debated. The News-Chronicle, in it leading article headed “ Let, It Be,” announces the receipt of many letters protesting against the Primate’s broadcast criticisms as untimely and even un-Christian. The News-Chronicle commends the advice of the Dean of Westminster to refrain from mischievous gossip, and remember the debt of rich ami poor to the ability, work and devotion of ex-King Edward as Prince and Sovereign. Other newspapers are publishing letters protesting against; the broadcast. A correspondent to the Daily Telegraph declares that the Archbishop’s judgment of ex-King Edward jarred manv listeners who must have contrasted ex-King Edward’s moving and generous broadcast farewell with the Archbishop of Canterbury “hitting a man when down.” The correspondent declares: “Surely the time when the Archbishop of Canterbury should have expessed his view was before the final scene.”