The Washington times., 1937-11-05
This Is Going to Be Good
"Call Me Ma'am"


TINE Duke and Duchess of Windsor, scheduled to
i reach these shores November II, will, of course
be guests and such will merit considerate treat
ment. But they have made their visit matter of pub
lie dscussion so here little public discussion of it.
Already the Windsor visit is being built up into a
circus. 1t promises be tops crcuses when it really
gets going
For thing, there is the report by News Reporter
Grace Robinson, of whose veracty there be ques
ton, that the Windsors press representative says the
,,, duke wants his duchess addressed
~ " , as MA am. "Ma'am' is what
Cd"e0 wa u" you call the Queen of England
after YOU have once called her Your Majesty" 1t is
somewhat more serve form Of address than 'Madame';
probably goes back to the kitchen saveys style Of salut
ing her beters in the royal or noble household.
The duchess is coming over here, and is going down
to Baltimore where dowagers who probably snooted
her in her Baltimore boarding house days will be
pected to make obeisance to her phantom by call
ing her "Ma 'am.' We'd bet to l the dowagers will
do it, too, and love it.
There is also the matter of the Windsors' recent
socatons and present advisers and ccerones guides
to you).
The ducal couple fresh from enjoyable time
with Chancellor Hitler of Germany and his lieutenant,
DR.. Robert Ley, the who killed off the German
TL4 ctd labor unions. This has moved the Bal
timore Federation of Labor to pass
VI housing resolutions condemning the Windsors
and expressing doubt of their sincerity in saying they
want to study slum clearance and low-rent- model
housing.
We're forced to share in that doubt Very little slum
clearance has been achieved in this country and have
very little lowrent model housing-facs which could
have been learned by sing gle welaimed telephone
query from Paris. Germany Austria Tor England, if
the Duke and Ma am allowed there) would be far
better places to study sum clearance and low-rent
model housing
About the cicerones Mr. Charles E. Bedaux is chief
of these. Mr.. Bedaux is famous of the most
effective labor sretcher-outers and speederuppers
chnrHo this country has produced. An odor of
Fascism Fascist sympathies clngs
0e"""" about his garments, though he denies
such sentiments. This cannot but stimulate the
of some sort of worldwide Fascist movement to be
headed by the Duke of Wndsor-rumors which we con-
slider silly but which circulating regardless of what
we think about them.
Mr.. Bedaux interviewed by Washington press rep
resentatives Wednesday, trpped seriously the
question whether he paying for the Windsor tour.
He refused to the question: but he left decided
Inference hanging In the air that the yes.
In opinion truly polite cicerone would have
shouted 'no-no-a thousand times no!'' whatever the
correct answer ght be.
We think the owdown on the whole Windsor tour is
that Windsor has been ill advised by Ma am and that
Ma am is not too shrewd.
NO'0n,'s She moved in limited circle of inter
,.1.. national snobs and snobbesses before her
%1"'O'''O" ambition to be queen pulled EngIand's
King off his throne Since Cromwell and William of
Orange, she is the first to accomplish this feat She
could have been unofficial queen had she played her
cards wisely; after Darby probationary
period Of ten years she could most likely have
been officially crowned queen. Ma ANS ambitions got
the better of what judgment she had in that historic
episodes and think little Baltimore girls ambition
to come back and swank around in her own home coun
try is mainly to blame for this junkets circus aura
The British government must take part of the blame
though By keeping the duke out of the EMPIRE it is
exposing him to criticism and rdcue everywhere else
If Parliament would vote him nice castle somewhere
In England, and tell him and Ma am to come on home
and live in the castle and keep quiet lot of this en-
barrassment would be eliminated
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