DUKE OF WINDSOR

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 70, 24 March 1937, Page 7

DUKE OF WINDSOR

NEWSREEL CENSORED SYDNEY PAPER’S COMMENT DECISION BY GOVERNMENTS (By Telegraph—Pres. Association—Copyright) SYDNEY, Marcl. 23. The acting chief film censor, Mr. Hurley, stated that newsreel items depicting the Duke of Windsor ski-ing would not be shown in any part ol Australia. He added: "The film was considered to be of a character not desirable for the screen. I cannot comment further than that.”

The Daily Telegraph says: "It is revealed in a high official quarter that certain Empire Governments, including Australia, have agreed that it is not regarded as desirable that the Duke of Windsor should be seen in films until after the Coronation.”

"An Old Contemptible,” writing in the Sydney Morning Herald, says: "I would like to express a very strong protest against the criticisms of the Duke of Windsor’s character by a Mr. Hector Bolitho, which you publish in your issue of to-day. Apart from the fact that I know them to be entirely inaccurate, if this book is to carryweight, how easily are the public gulled into forgetting the magnificent self-sacrificing work which the selfsame gallant gentleman did for them for a quarter of a century. But we who witnessed his never-failing live energy, his unassuming charm, his democratic kindness, his superb courage, at the battle front, are not going to forget it. This simply honest gentleman, this brilliant, determined intellect, has not so suddenly deteriorated into a "fantastically conceited, confused, uneertain-minded individual’’ just because Mr. Bolitho says so. I happened to have the fortune of intimate knowledge cf the Duke of Windsor’s work when he was serving with the 13th. Corps in France, with which I was also working, and the honour of personal con.act with firm on many occasions—the last, two years ago—when he came up and spoke to me for ten minutes before I left England. His live intellect, energy, honest, simple charm, strong character, and manifest kindness cf heart were the same then as they had always been.”