The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-12-02
Great Britain Near
Crisis On Romance
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the ccuntry's grave problems have
been discussed.
Il was believed that because OF
tlik pressure Of affairs, including
the Spanish problem, another spe-
efal meeting would be called to dis
ctlss and decide the constitutional
crisis.
Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin
his threatened, unless the king
Promises to accept the cabinets
@aavice," TO rush through parlia-
nEht q bill making 1t compulsory
for any sovereign to obtain the APP
prevail Of the privy council for his
marriage.
King Counter Threatens
The king has counter-threatened
Roerefuse to approve any such bill.
The constitutional question Is o
NEST thorny one, because OF the
pf0bable difficulty Of forming an
other cabinet in the event that
Baldwin resigned. !.
n was learned that an editorial
IN today;s Times, referring TO the
possibility that children OF the Duke
of York, the kings brother, ana
heir presumptive. might reign was
wrltten with deliberate purpose.
Present indications are that tne
msthod OF solution Of the crisis
VIII depend largely upon the state
Ofpublic opinion.
Conservative provincial news
papers, aiming to bring the matter
into the open, deliberately broke
saway today from the self-imposed
Censorship on which London news
papers had agreed among them
selves.
II Mrs, Simpson Sidetracked
Their editorials did not mention
Nrs. Simpson or the kings friend.
ship for her. They merely warned
the king that he Is a sovereign porn
"a rule and that 1t Is necessary lor
him to set an example Of the high
esk sort of self-sacrifice and service
to@his country.
But there were signs that the
whole matter might break into the
oren In the newspapers soon, lor
It was learned that provincial news
papers this morning began to ask
I0rdon news picture agencies Tor
pictures Of Mrs. Simpson. Hitherto
the provincial papers have pup
lished no pictures Of her. London
papers have published only a Few
az the less intimate pictures taken
On the kings summer cruise with
ber as a member of his party.
so serious was the situation TO-
day that publication Of the pro-
gram for the kings forthcoming
tour OF distressed areas In South
Staffordshire, was postponed. The
pfOgram was TO have been issued
this afternoon. Now Monday Is the
day.
1t was limited that it might even
b. announced that the king was
s.fndisposed" or something Of the
sort rs an excuse for abandonment
Of the tour.
THE itinerary for the tour was
rearranged considerably by the cab
met, 1t was learned, because when
he visited South Wales a week ago
the king remarked that some
LHtlN WILL NC uOllC w AChCFS "'S
ARIA. The cabinet regarded this as
improper, in that 1t indirectly
pledged the government TO act.
Hut today's postponement was
die to anxiety over the kings pos
eib!e reaction to the editorial cam
peign.
1t was said on reliable authority
that the archbishop OF Canterbury,
whose opposition as head Of the
church, under the king, TO the
friendship has been known for
weeks, ignored recent command
Of the king TO visit him at Buck
4i5gham Palace.
THE same informant said that
the printing of the Church Of Eng
land coronation service Is being
Held up because the archbishop has
withheld his approval Of 1t.
'-Another reliable source said that
the recent precipitate return TO this
country Of Lord Beaverbrook, head
0f the Beaverbrook newspaper