PROTEST MADE TO PRIMATE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 30, 19 February 1937, Page 5

PROTEST MADE TO PRIMATE

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Criticism oi Ex-King's Friendj Witkdrawn Priyately £? - LORD BROWNLOW'S VIS1T

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(Received 17., 8.45 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 18, Lord Brownlow, who accompanied Mrs Wallis Simpson to Caxmes in December, in a speeeh at Lincoln, revealed that after the Archbishop of Canterbury 's broadcast, wherein he refeixed to ex-King Edward 's "social circle" he visited the Primate and protested, "I told him that some of his statements might be taken to refer to me. The Archbishop said that although he could not withdraw them publicly he had not intended to refer to me qr to pain me in any way. ' ' Lord Brownlow^ who was appointed Lord Lieuteflant of Lincolnshire. during King Edward Vllfv'a xeign, said he had been told that damaging misunderstandings had ariseu regardbhg hhl. ap*. pointment which were doing him no good. There was apparently an impression that Lord Lieutenants were appointed by the King and mqght be. liable to the influence. of- Court people, and officials, whereas. Lord Lieutenants, had never beeu. appoiuted by the, Sovereign during the past 100 years. "[Witbia. a few moaths; of my appointment," he continued, "I became, involved in public events of great difficulty, miafortune. and sorro.w. Now f oolish, and ill-informed gossip is- under* mining my position. " , It was, therefore, only right) he said, 'to put the faets forward. (My duties require no explanation. I do not intead to justify them, or. apologise for them. It. is iiot necessary. If I have any critics' I would. suggest that they seaxeh their own conseiences and inqu£re~fcito their own. standards: qf life and frien.d ship."