Ka Hoku o Hawaii, Volume XXXI, Number 41, 10 February 1937 — Trying To Make British Forget Ex-King Edward [ARTICLE]

Trying To Make British Forget Ex-King Edward

Storics from Lon<!on in(licaU; that the Briti>h i>t-ople arc b«-ing taught to fcirgi-t thoir virtua!l\ exiled formor King, the I)«kc <ii* Windsor. onee tho jnost popu!ar Prince anel Kjng of modorn times, In an effort toinflufo the grr-rtt mass of the BritNh peoplo to forget Edward, the governnuiitinspired national campaign to "sell" the new King and his fami'.y to the nation was being carried forward with increasing impetus. While newtj of Kdwurd in Au<tria was becom:ng increasingl.v scarce ! in the British" press and when j printcd news was eonfined to bnef; paragraphs, eolumn after eolumn . ■waB still biing de"oted to the new j King and Queen and their two j children. Pictures of the King and Qucen , and the twolittle princesse«. usu-| all.y playing in the garden of their. home, were being printed nlmo«t| daily in the newspaper The do- - mesticity of thc Quecn and the model family life or the new monarchs were being especiaUy ( ernphasized. • On the other hand, in what little was written a!>out Kdward, the people were being led to believc. that he lethis countr.v down when he gāve ,up the tbrone lqr' love of Mrs. Ernest Bimpson. : Despite this concerted effort to lower the nations esteem of Ed-J ward, the mi])' , ession that he was virtually forced off the throne was beginnin4 to seep deeper intO ; the minds of the masses. A t the tim° Edward abdicated . the British people generall.V felt ; he left l>ecanse he cared little for ;■ the job of being King and was not inclined to attach the importance t to his pos!tion that the nation believed was warranted. Since that time, however, the ( impression has bēcn steadily growing that the government was g'lnd , to get rid of him and that insteacb of making any serious effort to j prevent hisabdication. placed him jn a position where he had no other alternative but to abdicatei if he was to retain his self-respectj as a man. ' The belief is growing that the j governmcnt, and the poliiieal» parties generally felt ivhvard wusj paying niore attention to puhlie, problems than a British * ingj should do if he is to keep out of J politics For that reason, the. government and the politicians| generally were riot <lisine!ined to ( permit Edward to g<> if a s\if-| ficiently good excuse eouhl be| found, j