Evening star., 1937-10-24

due familiarity, even among his
The social colonies of Newport and
Long Island have Wed with one another
In cabling invitations for dates for
week ends, dinners and what crumbs
can be gathered in the way of hospi-
tality-nothing for publication my
deah, for those in favor with court
circles abroad prefer to remain incog
for the present-as there has been
nothing in court circulars relative to
the intended visit: a recent copy Of the
London Times has few lines in a
very obscure corner mentioning the
rumor of their visit
The Dukes Last Visit
a Happy Memory.
Those who saw the incident retain
particularly happy picture of his
royal highness when he visited Wash
ington at the time of the World War:
He was in residence at the Perry Bel
mont House on New Hampshire ave-
nue., leaving the house at the noon
hour as his car turned into the avenue
there we're several laboring men sitting
on the side of the pavement taking
their lunch, they rose and waved their
caps and the Prince waved his in turn.
School children seemed to appear from
every side street shouting There he
is; he stood up on the seat of the
automobile and waved his cap and
laughed, joining in the fun with
enthusiasm. His light hair, now
tinged with gray, glowed in the SUM-
light, and his boyish face was without
line of care; always little shy when
meeting older people, he was the
embodiment of youth and the Joy of
living. Those who have seen him
since his abdication say there is a
wistfulness about his smile but that
there is a sobered dignity and thought
fulness that is very impressive.
Another delightful memory of his
highness was when he planted tree
in the Washington Cathedral Close.
His dignity and the eternal fitness of
things which he always displayed one
cannot forget. 1t was on Sunday
while in Washington that a group of
young people asked where he would
play golf? He answered, "Oh, I am
going to services" and when there
was an audible smile he said quite
simply, Mother expects It,"
His Interest in Housing
Began After the War.
Well, quite so. Somebody said in
some remote period that all the world
loves lover-and if it chances to be
a royal one there must be certain
glamour surrounding the picture.
Whether it would have been more
heroic for the Duke of Windsor. to
have given up Mrs. Simpson and re-
manned the beloved ruler of the earth's
greatest empire does not enter here.
Neither, whether his sacrifice of his
Kingdom was voluntary or forced. The
fact remains that he has chosen to
pursue a line of investigation that
has long excited his sincere interest
and study and was first exhibited when
he returned from the war in France
to find housing conditions in England
wholly inadequate for the returning
forces. Not only the inadequacy of
the situation interested him, but he
had lively appreciation of what those
hellish years in the trenches had
meant to the men-mentally as we'll
rs physically.
He realized that the whole world was
going to be different; that things
would never again be accepted as they
were before the war. To those who
came back whole the carnage, the
utter desolation, the discard of much
that men had believed in before would
all be part of the picture So. as
the Prince of Wales. he became inter-
ested in living conditions; in the mis-
cradle housing in Wales, Cornwell and
in the great industrial and manufac-
turing centers in the North of Eng
land. He went to Birmingham, Man.
chester. Nottingham and other dis
tricts. He talked to the working men
themselves, personally and individ-
ually; he went into their homes
which he pronounced on one occasion
not mt for animals. He exhibited a
business acumen and practical view
of the situation that surprised those
who were with him on his tours. He
neither expressed nor encouraged any
Utopian views as to the future, but
rather that he would do his part in
so far as permitted to relieve the situ-
alton. That he sincerely tried to do
that cannot he denied
Difference Between American
And European Housing.
The Duke of Windsor will find MANY
differences between the official or Fed
eral housing policies in America and
England. Here housing measures were
introduced in the first place primarily
rs an emergency measure to provide
employment and not as a housing pol
Icy per Sc at all. He will also find that
the average Americans strongly indi-
vidualistic tendency is inclined to
make him want to select his own house