The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-03

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 Talk On Streets
 They looked at Mfs. @imp0on'S photograph as pubiiahAd in the Daily Mirror along with It's story.
 "9he put i'm up so t, she did,' was one comment that was typi- cai. She was sc hiaEns, the word was.
 Middle class people. more re- served were shame faced and ale most furtiye as they read their newspapers and looked to see # anybody was watching them.
 "It's all that womaEs's doing" said one sedAte old woman.
 There were isolated YeFnaTkS:
 Hes being . damn fooi"--oT The can't have his cake and oat it to0"-or "he's still acting like . lad" The king k 42.
 But the general attitude was that the king did not fall. that he was pushed, and there was resentment that "that woman" had placed him in an embarrassing situation.
 Leaders In CSnseFenes
 Baldwin and other political lead. CTS conferred privately ths raoFn- ing, by telephone. over breakfast, in clubs and homes.
 Cabinet ministers awaited . call to an emergency meeting, prob ably before commons met.
 Baldwin considefed . visit to Buckingham Palace to advise the King again of the situation and ap- peal to him to subordinate his own interests and his own life, to hn peoples desires.
 IL was a strange situation. People talked of the crisis a if those h. volved were actors in Q play. Yet there was involved in t the happi. ness Of many people. King Edward, worried, stubborn, angry, altsrnated between Fort BelevedeFe. his country home, and Buckingham Palace. re. fusing in bursts of almost boyish en. ger even to talk of the crisis with his own advisers,
 Mrs. Simpson secIsAsA
 Mrs, "Wally" Simpson, Baltimore and Washington society woman who married q young EngllshTnan and was brought by him to London, was secluded at her home in Cumberland Terrace, refusing to talk, III from worry and believed to be suffering from flu as well.
 In Marlborough House in Central London, near Buckingham palace but a world away, was gray haired Queen Mary, widowed 10 months ago and now, it was learned today, heart broken over her sons friend ship with Mrs. Simpson.
 Blunt Stanley Baldwin, the pipe smoking sQuire who does not like politics but has been in the heart of affairs for years, pursued his stub- born way, refBing as such men in Britain have done for centuries to give in on question where the power Of the government and the powers Of the throne are in ques- ton. Britain wants no dictatofg.
 Man Whe Started It
 And strangest figure of all the participants. Blunt Dr. Alfred Wal ter Frank Blunt, Bishop of Brad- ford, round faced, round eyed, snub nose-.-the man whot started 1t all with . cryptic speech at . dioce- san conference regrstting that the king seemed not to be more aware of his position as the leader of the Church of England.
 To the agtonishncnt Of the cos1rl- try, Bishop Blunt said today that he had not the slightest intention of bringing into dscussion the kingB friendship with Mrs. Simpson.
 He had never even heard Of Mrs. Bimpson. had not heard in his se- qucstered lifs and rumors about the king, he said--and he wrote his speech six weeks ago even before Mrs. Simpson was granted . limited divorce from Ernest Simpson.
 T was merely commenting on the absence of outward concern for re- ligion which shows Itself in the kings daily life" he said.
 The bishops statement made t evident that British leaders had been secking a foundation oii which to base their determined opposition to a romance which only some 75,- GOO people perhaps in all Britain knew about--and which all, or ale most all, oppose as impossible.
 Situation Serious
 How serious the situation really k. E known to those who feel that Great Britain, slow moving. undra- matic, willing to concede point where possible at the sacrifice of it's pride. S the sole hope of Europe for continued peace while other countries talk war: to those who analysed the alarmed inquiries from the doTnini0r9; who thought of the importance of the crowns prestige Co fndia,s hundreds Of millions; to those who saw the nervousness In stock markets this morning after the biggest slump of the year in the London exchange yestsrday-- where British Government stocks were cried for sale in the streets after the market closed.
 For the moment, the government wa@ intent on getting the king ot declare that he has no intention Of marrying Mrs. Simpson. The sug- gcstiOn that he marry her privately is actually way ahead of the actual situation. for the cabinet 10 far has insisted that he give up his frisnd- ship. or make t 6 purely formal one. Edward stOutly refused.
 May XII of Divorce
 Reports were revived that if ns- cessary not only might the govern. ment force through . law making any marriage illegal which the privy council did rot approve but that some person Of eminencs might at- tack Mrs. Bimpson's divorce.
 The decree which she received from Simpson at Ipswich October 27 was h decree nisi, e of nullity. II k necessary for her at the end of slx months b apply for ( decree ab- solute before she or Simpson can remarry.
 The kings proctor. q leaaI official.