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Lord, Beaverbrook

HAVING seen Lord Beaverbrook,

an television, and agreed with all that my colleague Maurice Wiggin wrote about his perform. ance last week) 1. Wan Kalorilalind toʻ "ate that he is seventy-three today? drew men ör-file size retais kuch

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by

London Express Service

NEW LIGHT

ON THE

ABDICATION

LORD BEAVERBROOK

COME to a curious matter. This monu- mental work -The "History of The Times which is written by Stanley Morison, tells of the decisive part played by The Times and by its editor, Geoffrey Dawson in the Abdication of Edward 'the Eighth, King,

-broadcasting

In the Home Service on

the latest volume of The History of The Timos.

The earlier part of the -broadcast dealt with the Lloyd George Cabinet In the first World War.

his question in the words of the King: "I always thought I could get away with a morganatic

Sitting On The Fence

By.... NATHANIEL GUBBINS

SHORT time ago I first and fine and warm later," offered to write a daily has been sont to a camp for the column for Pravda if re-education of the faithlem Stalin would pay me 1,000,- 000 roubles a week free of

tax.

two

occasions when a the church 10 bo married: žila

Although I promised to devote bridegroom was going to every word to praise of Stalin, the offer was not prcepted.

"legs buckled under him and he was unable to walk”

I now propose to, take two In the Medical Preen & Dr items of news from Moscow Charles Berg. Horley Street Radio and show him how an psychiatrist, gives this explana- experienced and Imaginative tion of his condition:→ columnist would have handled them.

Here are the items:-

"AS

Stalin Ascended 410

steps be ruled bis hand, and the sun seemed, to abine brighter,"

"Snow fell in Moscow yes. terday,"

The facts are that the sun shone and the snow fell on different days, but who would bother about facts when writing for Communist newspaper?

This is how Nathaniel Gubsky, of Pravdo, would have written it--

In

"Emotions that a person will not admit are burted deep in his mind, but they come to the surface physical reaction which cast- not be controlled. So the bridegroom. probably “did not want to marry.".

Dr Gubbins, the Foot Street psychiatrist, writes:

Congratulations to my Härldy Street colleague on his brilliant diagnosis of a case which has is counterparts in other human Activities..

“We have all heard of the phrase 'He spends money like "man with no arme,”

"This describes perfectly the, condition of a man who avoids setting a restaurant billi somebody else is likely to pay.

"As Stalin, god-like in his I white and gold uniform, mount

ed the steps, snow clouds, dark and evil as the dogs and cati- "He does not. care to admit nibals of the so-called Western that he is a lick-a-penny skin-

democracies, gathered. In the fint. but so deeply is this Northern sky and cast their instinct buried in his mind shadows, not only on the hushed, that, at the sight of a billion bare-headed crowds In Ited uncontrollable physical. FERC- Square, but also on the noble, tion temporarily paralyzes his smiling features of our beloved arms, keeping them out of his leader and his ingrowing mous- pockets. tache, Tovarich.

Woman

"In other words, he does not "In a allence so Intense that want to spend money, a con- that all would have thought morringe."

the sobbing of an overwrought clusion that could be reached Edward to rule, if he had

Bounded like a herd of only by a trained psychiatrist. never ascended

All these events are past and cows with the hiccoughs, Stalin Throne. He branded

It is long since, Simpson gone.

"My advice to girls who are personally

walling at the church for a buckled lega bridegroom with "As if obeying a signal from is to send her relatives to hos show He him with ropes and bring

language.

the

Mrs

the in And ho

and

severest this is my 73rd birthday. Tell-raised his hand.

won't declared ing me I do not look

Fifth's help me at all. Nothing helps

was

sup

that King George the jast days had been clouded with me now, except the inheritance a surperior officer, the anxiety for the future.

of much strength derived from clouds halted and rolled back, him to the altar on a stretcher."

as bright as the the frugal lives of my Scottish and the sun,

over our forebears, transplanted to the spirit that watches of harsh

Es war as the and infertile Boil of destinies and

heart that loves us as bis own Eastern Canada.

chlidren, shone over all, The past now lives in my

The future has

This information plied by the Archbishop Canterbury, who told Dawson that King George's death had been hastened by his son's in-

memory.

place.

no

com-

"That was just another of Stalin's daily miracles, rades, this time to show us how easily he will deal with our men of enemies.

But the dramatic story is not the Prime Minister's Cabinet

colleagues is made abundantly fatuation, boldly brought out as the im- clear in Mr Morison's narrative, portant part played by The Dawson was almost invariably from the exciting appendix of All the foregoing facts I take Times in the Munich Crisis consulted arst.

History of brought out.

Stanley Morison's

And it is out of the past that Instead, # 1s

I recall the brilliant The Times. hidden away In

appcs-

No doubt I put a different action who march through the dix.

interpretation

of The of pages of The History upon some these events, but the accuracy

Times. of the narrative cannot be dis

London Express Service) puted.

elemen!

too?

that

Innocent on the surfaco,

The crisis was launched by o letter written by Major Har Munich turned out to be a dinge to his master, the King. fallure and The Times frankly Dawson saw that letter in draft admits its share in that episode, and approved it. Thereupon The Abdication was successfully Dawson sot out on a propaganda There is one notable omission. carried through with the essen- canvass of public men.

Stanley Morison does not tell tial aid of this newspaper-and

When the King put forward to the Editor Dawson published The Times book burles it in`a ', back seellon. Why? Is there an-Baldwin-the-project-of a morone. plece of journalism.

this ganatle marriage-that is, that was of apology in

he should take a wife but not a but which carried wounding and Queen-Dawson was consulted molicious innuendo. I am not taking up any per- by Baldwin. Only after this con- He does tell that public tisan attitude in this matter. wultation was the project sub opinion was heavily on the side Nor do I desire to rake over the mitted to the Cabinet and the of the King and the King's po- dead embers

of this contra- Dominion Governments. When posal for a morganatic mar- versy. All that is history now, the replies come in, Baldwin riage. and as such

it is told in this conveyed the information to

The Times successfully sway- Times book. It is interesting to Dawson before he took it to the ed public opinion in the op- see both what The Times old King.

posite direction, on that occasion and what it BAYS now about what it said then.

The facts

HESE are the facts which the

THES book sela. fourth:-

1

Dowson sat with Baldwin com- forting and encouraging him when the Prime Minister lost his nerve.

** Terrified'

THAT the editor of The THEN Editor Dawson conducted Times, Geoffrey. Dawson, was

the most important factor-with advocating the importance of Crown and lis the sole exception of the Prime keeping the Minister, Stanley Baldwin, in representatives ramole from glar- compelling the King to abdicate, ing personal scandal Dawron THAT he did it by methods was intimidating the King in which many would condemn. code. He succeeded in terrifying

his Majesty. THAT be pursued his - quest

the

Into exile..

/THE_King, now the Duke of 1 Windsor, went into arile when he boarded the destroyer Fury that foggy December night and put out to sea for France

the

NO

Into · battle

young, had three wishes to boga church bell ringer, to drive a tram, and to shoot files with a Uny 'gun,

WHEN I was very

"The charwoman who shoul- A good fairy, disguised as a ed. It's just what the weather manufacturer of insecticides, has forecast said-threat of snow at, granted the last wish.

Has The Jet Become Too Fast?

asks Richard Norton

In fact, he has not only pro- vided a tiny anti-fly gun, but a tiny machine-gun with a press button action, 'a barrel ' 'about Vin,long and an extreme range of about a yard," It dres millions of rounds of atornised insecticide a minute:

With Lottle the Devil Cat, as Second in Command, I went into battle with my, little gun against four bluebottles and two wasps.

'enemy's centre was formed by the four bluebottles buzzing on the window pane Highland regiments

S the toll of serious acci- serves. Simple enough perhaps dents to military jet from Manchester to Southamp

The ton, but a different matter over aircraft continue to mount hostile and unknown enemy Allied planning chiefs face territory as in Korea,

At 660 mph. there is noike the question: Are the selec- physical danger to the pilot or defiantly blowing their bagpipes tion tests for. pilots, tough his machine in level flight. But his left and right flanks by the

turn as they are, adequate for when he starts to or two wasps circling the battic- manoeuvre, trentendous gravity field on air reconnaissance. His the jet age?"

line of retreat was cut off by; a stresses come into play.

The modern high speed jet closed door,

speciat

It's not that the young emen of today are inferior to the men who fought the air battles pilot is protected by a

700

on

I don't know what Fold blackouts Marshal Loni Montgomėty

1

I gave

the nearest blue-

of World War II. It's just that pressure sult, but even this can- the demands made on them are not save him from One day shortly after many times more severe then and permanent injury if he is would have done, but I attacked "ham firiod" or tums too his centre, ordering Lottie to Abdication President Roosevelt those of 10 years ago.

guard our ́fonka' What makes the jet fighter violently. asked me to go to Washington.

so tough to handle? Why this He examined me in every de tail of the royal tragedy. He

strain

the nerves and

A sudden pull on the controls could not understand it. He

physique of the jet age pilot?

In the excitement of combat bottle a one-second burst from

For quoted the old saying that no The answer lies in the in

A moment it can tear the wings off the the gun, with a vigour that seemed About this time I was in Newman- should evoc resign, but credible speeds and heights at machine,

buzzed louder than ever. Then more like venom."

York. The King telegraphed wait to be sacked.

which they fly, speeds nearing The combat pilot is faced, it dropped to the door, spun What kind of maŋ was this and telephoned me to come to

m.ph, 10 miles up in the. 400, with the new legend of the round on Its back, threw up. Its formidable Dawson?

London. It is stated by The I replied that I never could

ratosphere.

air: "You never see the one that six or eight hands and died, I know him, not intimately, Times book that when Dawson discern any real purpose

What happens to a man aying gets you" Two jets approach-

11 for a quarter of a century. A knew that I was due to arrive, steady polley in the conduct of at 000 mph? Ho

time of the Abdication he threatened to print a leading the King It seemed to me miles in a minute, a malo in 64 ing head on close at a combined speed of more than 1,300 mph. Crisis, he was a man of middle article attacking his Majesty in that he just allowed himself to seconds, 323 yards every time and the first man to sight his

his wrist watch ticks, weight, with a good head, going order to block any help that I be pushed out.

indre prey is usually the victor, President Roosevelt was not than 250 yards every time his Flying nine or ten miles up finished a second bluebottle,

· Another."one-second 25 bürst bit bald, and a rather fushed might be able to give.. face.

He walked with a firm And on arriving at Fort the President was dead, I was

convinced. Years after, when heart boats.

adds to the dangers and the tread.

Belvederd, where, the King"was

strain. At that height the air is and there is no doubt that He would have looked well, in residence, I found him in

given an explanation of the

Navigation, nover a simple so thin and the pressure so low would have routed their main and he would have done well, terror of Dowson. He had sent conduct of the King in a single job in the air, becomes a nerve that even with oxygens no pilot army, with 100 percent casual- ties if Lottle had no attacked a battleship. Sir Walter Moncton to the sentence. on the bridge of

racking battle with the second- could

A survive without

without orders are destina He had a commanding attitude, editor, arking that he might have

hand of the clode. The plot is pressurised cockpit. He was not especially, attractive a promise that the so-called Full

fying too high and too fast. to Any failure in that pressuris

She not only trapped a third in appearance, though If he was Life of Mrs Simpson would not

map-read his way across country od codpit means disaster, and bluebottle on the window pane In any company you soon be published.

on the Spitfire pliot did. Ho a bit from a single bullet with her paw" transferring AN realised he was there. He received an assurance that Y. disembarked from Fury at mg, his watch and his com- temperature outside the aircraft the table, but got fix the^lina"pr.

He was

... WHEN the Duke of Windsor must navigate on his radio bow, sufficient to cause it. The ar to her mouth to consume under somebody, He liked to dine in important publication would not take place

elow freezing fire and hold up the stack, company. He had an excellent in the next issue. Cold-comfort. Boulogne and bade farewell to pass, and be must be right first to 70 degrees C. below

his friends that had come with time, 2 toale in port wine. He was not When Dawson set out to him be turned to one of them If he is a few sccunda luto in

These are the problems with Although I brought down the like Pitt, a two-bottle man, but mobilies opinion against the King and said: "I always thought I making a turn he will mim bls which the nighter pilot has to wasps with accurate ack-dcis Dawson could be depended on in the columns of The Times, he could get away with a morgan if he is slightly off coured three heights. Yet already a speed of escaped

land-maric by a mile or intro, contend at to-day's speeds and fre the fourth bluebottle for three full glasses.

deliberately suppressed all letters tic. marriage.

through an open He had a clear head and, which were in favour of the King

minites, will take him 33 miles 660 mp.h, is considered too slow-window. reckoned that he knew his own and at the outset, as is stated. So the King had

ts to bo apolloy away from his base or rendez- If the neckdent rate is mind-though perhaps what he

At a court martial to, by, bald replly knew was his friend Lord in The Times book, they were after all. Clearly it had been vous. There is Hide or no time kept to an acceptable level oven

overwhelmingly so. >

by his intention to barter the for second thoughts or to cor- at today's low spects, ory shortly Lottle will be charged Mlinor'a mind, which he mistook

threat of Abdication against rot error,

men who are super-lit can be with disobeying a lawful orther for his own.

Then, at the end, he made th three disreputable assertions in Government acknowledgment of Incombat at this speed a passed for trying) duties and while on active service; eating. He wrote the morganatle; marriage.. The fighter which takes off from even super-diooss is not enough the enemy in defiance, fot his leading articles.

with and The Times and Mr. Baldwin, but amptons may start a pure whit abnormal nervous and Queen's Regulations will

over London, join battle; over

prejudicial *Private secretary Major Alezender won the last trick.

Enningham 10 minutes later physical stamina, Albrigh

order and milltary discipitno, NOW here is the factual at Hardinge fletter was received by

and gettle the lane over Man- How to Identity theso okusiyo count of the constitutional, King adword Viil on November 15, If I had know of this con- chester a few mintates after that. qualities at the recruit stage is

The Andings of the court will crisis taken from The Times 1939 The King recorded later that varsation before. the death of The jet pilot must the find the problem now, geiling : 400 be promulgated cleara

Am reperdad, terreold, formal my Proaldent Roosevelt, I Appendix, That Dawson was of gestiune) thak Mra Simpsons --shuaid

could bla way home with an anxiou priority from resourch tournur: In

—LONION. Express Nervios)

Consulted

Last trick

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point.

more importance than any of leave the country, de un pillmatum, have given him the answer to eye on his dwindling fuel raw: aviation medicine, S

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