MRS. SIMPSON INTERVIEWED BY AMERICAN PRESS

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 306, 10 December 1936, Page 5

MRS. SIMPSON INTERVIEWED BY AMERICAN PRESS

WOULD BE WILLING TO MAKE SACRIFICE FOR EMPIRE

The most interesting news of the crisis appearing in America to-day was a trans-Atlantic telephone interview by the Denver Rocky Mountain News with Mrs. Simpson, with Lord Brownlow as intermediary'. Mrs. Simpson expressed readiness .to marry the King even if she cannot reign as queen, but was ready to renounce her love for the King if that would save the Throne. Her love for him was so great that she would subordinate every personal desire or affection for his good and the good of his people. The Philadelphia Inqiurer quoted Mr. Hugh Walpole as expressing the opinion that it might be a good thing for England if King Edward abdicated. The newspaper, which yesterday printed a leader composed of Shakespearean quotations, carrried another instalment to-day.

The Baltimore Advertising Club is considering the selection, of Mrs. Simpson to receive the 1936 awArd for the citizen contributing most to the, city’s progress in business, art and literature. The New York American ■-gives prominent di-v o an article by Mr. H. G. Wr, tdvncating fithe King’s marriage. “Sympathy and sentiment are ail very well in their place but the occasion now being faced by the*pritish Empire seems to call for ‘the reading of an ode to duty, that “stern daughter of the voice of God,” states the New York times in a leading article. A message from Kitchiner, Ontario, states that the City Council has decided to defer a resolution renewing allegiance to the King “until a more suitable time presents itself.”