ABIDING GRIEF

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 295, 14 December 1936, Page 7

ABIDING GRIEF

DISASTROUS UNION I | LATE KING’S DECISION LONDON, Dec. 11. ! , The Daily Telegraph says: "The ; [people loved King Edward from the 1 moment they saw his features as a | I babe in Queen Victoria's arms. He might have asked them almost anything. It will bo an abiding grief that [the marriage he asked would have l been disastrous to the Crown and the ■ realm. To a grand passion and a ■strang sense of chivalry which wrought sad confusion in national af- ; fairs a generous understanding is due. i We are witnessing the one supreme act of royal renunciation since An- ! tony married Cleopatra, jettisoning I the Roman empire, but how can one .conceive the Crown's Britain and Dominions to have been ‘well lost.’ Yet Ito know all is Io pardon all. The ' most generous course is, if possible, to ! suspend final judgment. I "The temple still stands unshaken. ; and. we believe, unshakable. There I is an immense resilience and rallyingI power in the British character and Throne. The new King starts his carleer much as did his father, whose | qualities and endowments he has inherited. There could not be a hap- > pier augury, while the Duchess learned her august role, now her share, from tlie perfect pattern of queer.ship. Queen Mary. May their ; reign be as happy as they deserve.” DECEMBER in FATEFUL IN HISTORY LONDON, Dec. 10. A correspondent writing to The Tiihes points out that December 10 is fateful in British annals as the date Jon which James 11. abdicated and dented for France.