Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 December 1936 — Page 8
AGEDY
BRITAIN AS COMMONS HDS
HISTORIC,
FATEFUL SESSION
(i ds Gather Around Parliament Buildings, Watch Com-
ings and + Goings of
Notables- in Empire's
Most Dramatic Crisis. -
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wrung from King John the Charta, has step by | step G the power of the throne to its will, met in a panalled chamber. 8 is not probable that Edward ‘will remain in the country a| mo‘ment longer than is necessary after Be has signed with his own hand the death warrant of his reign, After the abdication, the privy Foner will meet for an “accession council.” The privy councillors will be joined by various other officials such as the Lord Mayor of London. The new King will be presented, make a short speech and take the oath. Royal heralds, just as in the case of the death of a King, will proclaim at designated spots in ndon the ascension of the new mon-
‘This ceremony may be expe ted about Monday. The heralds will proclaim the accession at St. ie Bar Palace, Charing Cross, Temple and the Royal Exchange.
Destination Is Mystery
Where Edward will go is a come ete mystery, It most probably will : somewhere on the continent, but not Cannes, where Mrs. Simpson is in retirement. |
Her English divorce decree T:
has not yet been made final, and it would be regarded as improper for the King to join her at this stage. Although the divorce would not normally become final before next April 27, there were strong indications that “special considerations” would be urged on the divorce court to act Sooner, which it. is legally entitled to do. | The early marriage of the king and Mrs. Simpson therefore is not beyond the realm- of possibility, Where they will live is purely a matter of conjecture. Thé Rivie is a possibility and it also has been . suggested that the king might choose Argentina. While he is in exile, the corohation will take place, and his brother probably will be crowned on May 12, the original date set for Bavards coronation. There was. nothing at all cértain
about the King's future . title, or ‘that he would be made Duke of Cornwall. Court circles believe he may all titles but may be given a new dukedom. In any event, the government will see that he is well-provided for financially.
That this exile would be a real one seemed quite clear, The King reliable informants said, intended to go into voluntary permanent exile from the empire that he had ruled. This morning the King’s‘ three brothers visited him at lonely mistshrouded - Fort Belvedere, They seemed reconciled ‘to the expected parting. Cabinet thinister, dispatch riders, envoys ‘of the King went in and out of No.’10 Downing Street, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's official residence.
Baldwin Visits Queen Mary
This morning, between visits from ministers, Baldwin paid a brief visit to Queen Mary at Marlborough House. Her distress was obvious. But her regal bearing was never more in evidence, it was learned, as she rose early and breakfasted with the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, her son and !daughter-in-law, and Princess Mary, the Princess Royal, her only daughter.
Cheerless crowds gathered in the damp, penetrating cold of this London morning about Downing Street and Buckingham Palace. Extra police’ details went on duty to keep Downing Street clear. Newspapers. began appearing on the streets, their headlines eloquent of the abandonment of British hope that anything could interfere ‘with the expected abdication for love of a King of Great Britain and Emperor of India.
Thousands in Whitehall
British absorption in it, the sense of the people that there was a tragic drama for history going on
in their day, became more evident.
as the time for the Commons meeting neared. Thousands of people converged on Whitehall, off which branches little Downing Street, hardly more than a blind alley, and at whose end is
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where for seven days he had fought out the conflict between duty and love, to London ready for his departure, Atmosphere of Tragedy There was ‘an atmosphere of mourning, a sense of great over all of Great Britain, The “empire salesman,” the one time “Prince Charming,” the 20th century King. the man whom the country loved from boyhood, fiercely defended against criticism of his wilful ways, was quitting his post and his country for a woman, an American woman twice divorced. That was the way Britons saw if. Strongly present in the sense of tragedy was the’ unhappy augury under which the King prepared to leave his: country and join his love. » Mrs. Simpson is not free to marry and can not bé until the high courts have made final her decree .nisi (nullity) of divorce which she obtained from Ernest Simpson Oct. 27. The Communist newspaper. Daily Worker asserted today that an unidentified person already had intervened to oppose the granting of her final. decree. It was even possible that the rigid British legal authorities might make the expected statement in Commons the basis for intervention against the decree on the ground that Mrs. Simpson was not free to marry when the King -courted her.
Doubt as to Happiness “There was some doubt, &mong perons close to the King and Mrs. Simpson, that. they would marry, that after the ordeal through which both had. gone, afer the historic sacrifice which the King was ready to make, they would find happiness together for long. This ‘was a fit day for an abdication that has cast down Britain's millions. A penetrating damp cold hurried people along the: streets, The skies were overcast and wisps. of fog crept into the streets like fragments of’ a chroud.. ‘The tiny river craft on the Lrownish © Thames hooted their whistles. . dismally. ~ Thick mist shrouded Fort Belvedere where everyone believed ‘King Edward was spending his last hours as sovereign. All through the night dispatch
riders. were racing about London
with papers incident to an ahdication for which there was mo precedent in British history. Ministers visited No. 10 Downing Street and the dominions office across from if. For hours, two army dispatch rid-
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People Await Finale : Workmen, their short smelly pipes thickening the fog, fog, replaced in the streets the late
evening dress from the night clubs
| who stood about in groups, studying “headlines ‘and the |
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displayed, shrieking in six-inch lét- |
ters: “The King—Abdication.” For the newspapers, hesitant so long, at last began prepasing the people for immediate abdication.
It was a A apt business. A yaichman, huddling up to his glowg charcoal brazier alongside heaps n ® aber in the mall, near Buckingham Palace and Downing-st, summed it up: “All that was for King Edward's coronation,” he said, pointing with
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for. stands. from ‘which to review ihe ‘coronation procession.
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