A POLITIC ARRANGEMENT
r J' , HE suggestion now made that the ex-King should not receive a direct allowance from the Civil List, but should be provided for by his brother, the present King, thus obviating a debate on the subject in the House of Commons, must be regarded as a politic move. There is a widespread discontent at the previous proposal that the Duke of Windsor should receive an income of £50,000 from the Civil List, and this discontent would surely be voiced in the House of Commons. It would be humiliating for an ex-King to receive an income from the country from whose service he has retired, and as there would be a very deep distaste to many people if public money were provided to sustain a home in which Mrs. Simpson is the consort, it is as well that the dually unsatisfactory ptnntinn is to be avo’’ 3 "' 3
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 33, 9 February 1937, Page 6
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151A POLITIC ARRANGEMENT Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 33, 9 February 1937, Page 6
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