WHAT EDWARD MIGHT HAVE DONE

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 312, 18 December 1936, Page 5

WHAT EDWARD MIGHT HAVE DONE

NEWSPAPER COMMENT ON EX-KING’S ACTION _ z COULD HAVE INJURED IMPERIAL INTERESTS. -NO MAN MAY LOVE ANOTHER MAN’S WIFE, SAYS SOCIETY.

(Press Association—Copyright.) Received I p.m. LONDON, December 1 7. The National Labourite organ, “Newsletter,” in paying a tribute to ex-King Edward, says editorially: “It is to the enduring credit of the ex-King, that 1 when once he was satisfied that a morganatic marriage was impossible, he forced the issue to the only ending consistent with the public well-being. He might easily have claimed the right or asserted that it was bus duty to wait and leave the matter undetermined, until the law permitted him to marry. He could then, in April, have confronted his Ministers with a disastrous dilemma. Had he privately resolved to renounce neither the 1 krone nor hi* marriage, he might have succeeded in getting away at the price of inflicting an almost fatal loss on the prestige of the Monarchy, and immeasurable injury to national and Imperial interests. ■ ’ •J, ' Instead, he has allowed British feeling to fulfil its twin desire to retain, unimpaired, the system of constitutional Monarchy, and to have in its Monarch one who upholds certain standards of conduct. . i , : “There is no mistaking that the popular verdict of all classes of society is that ‘the woman I love’ must not be another man s W®-’’