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THE CHINA MAIL: SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1956.

YES. THE DUCHESS

N August 1941 the Duke and Duchess of Windsor announced that they intended to pay their first joint large. to the United scale visit

States.

Just a

year

earlier

the

Duke had

take

of

11 Governor

BAFFLED ME..

WHAT causes one human being to fall madly in love with another

is occasionally dear to third persons.

As far as 1

More often it remains

was concerned

Was

mystery to the onlooker. emphatically a mystery in the case of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor...

THE DUCHESS WITHJENE MACCOLL.. AMERICA 1941

CONTINUING the exciting Inside stories of a roving reporter..by RENE MacCOLL

DEADLINE & DATELINE - CHAPTER SIX

her

เ his

post care

the pesme of Bahamas, Tollowing the fall

of France.

aph panned les make swing wind the eastern part visit Washing. uf the SA ton, go up to the Duke's anch in time, and then look in on New York

T

W

Ta Cris offend welcom

Bardah La cirrira. I was abvious tha p

the Duke und lutte his hat was

Pobre were still 1x sedly straineri, perhaps beyond repair

b

HOWLY T

received th

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TWS

Duky ppt t and on day

From

SIT

Gerald Campbell, by then head-

The Ing

organisation (which

lime changed its aberit This

Information (o harre

British

been hact That 1 Services). chon as public relations offer for 1h couple during their visit

FLIGHT TO THE BAHAMAS que rule știemed to be that.

the Duke musi zav #1.. kje. a pussibit, must hold no Press conferences, give no interviews, inske no statements.

At the end of August 1 flew to Miami, changed planes and then over to the Bahamas.

ut welcome was

I

mede

wardrobe and

The main eriileism 15 usual- by About the money It must

apparitus of flying tual the

etc.-but personal hairdresers while this cannot be inconsider able, I think it is more signifi- That she is prepared 10 devote much of her waking hors to things like sitting in halvdes saver's chair, or choosing a w drowe, and selecting new rechts

ת!

Whether all that can be an end in itself, whether automalle

year after year inclusion the list of the World's Ten Best~ Dre sed Women can bring deep satisfaction, is and Justing something upon which I canno

I will merely pass judgment. say that I find it surprising

That she dominated the Duke

percen was clear to the text Live 1

seen an have rirely sccplany estaljished over une marriage by the partner in other ló io ranarkable a degree.

have been His lunch consisted ly of a plate of stewed fruit Не and a pot of wenk tea Orack sparingly of alcohol in the evening - [ #***1

night al a second Downment HouK

As to the visit to the U.S.A.. my conver tims with the Duke provin s might have been expected neurlusive I was haunted by he knowledge that I was to be rezeni with the party sa eather than encour- I was hol ger of information

le sure what the Duke had in mind

He said, of course, that But 1 interviews were out 201 the Impression that at the nk of his mind he was wist- fully considering the possibility af giving the vecasional inter-

appres or

VIPK

A SENSE OF GRIEVANCE

was als obvious, a

might

I rected, that the

The Duke at that time and ath Ave

years of marriage, stuck ane as a happy man

revel in being He seemed to will the Duchess, In suming hanelf in har smile; in ad

miring her appearance; in listen ing to her conversation.

And he constantly sought her approval for what he did and sulet

One would be aware of glures exchanged; questioning

un the

Duke's part, Government House first by Klances

or sometimta Major Gray Phillips, a pleasant congratulatory man, who was one of the Duke's shily disapproving or that of A.D.C.S. After some casual the Duches«.

talk a door

opened and the

Dake came

I had seen

times on various

him scores af assignments,

to bim

in

ne

THE DUCHESS SAID 'NO'

but had never been presented. NCE, on another of the later

He before.

American train journeys informal sports clothes, open-

Train

wax stopped by slacks, necked shir..

andais. arrangement on a lonely stretch We shook hands and he asked of line, and the Duke and me into his study.

Duchess

got Kood-naturedly

back along the down, trudged cinder track, and posed, for Pres under the train's photographs observation ear.

Soon I was thine for lunch, and I was presented to the Duchess

In the afternoon we all went swimming at the Duke's cabana. That night there was a din-

no

After a number of pictures bad been made one of the photo. graphers

doubt recalling famous gesture Churchill's

which was already of define known

across the world, called

"Could we have one with you making the V-sign, Dook?"

- ner party (white jackets, and

the Duke wearing the kilt).

The Duchess rather balled me I was never at my ease

with her. What

human out; cruises ane being to fall madly in love with another is occasionally clear to third persons, More often it remains a mystery to the on- looker As far as I was con-

Orned it was emphatically mystery in this case.

14

ww offering from a

consider-

shuttled. back and forth between altitudes and depths as duly

called,

The New York Press had not got on to the fact that a ceriain confileting purpose amount of

And on the day was evident. that a remarkable Press-con- ference - which- wag" - a Press conference was held by the Windsors in a private room at the Waldorf, things came to

ahead.

Неге In the account which Helen Worten wrote in the New York World-Telegram (the Scripps

Howard newspaper) that afternoon: "In an inter- vlow at the Waldorf-Astoria today the Duke of Windsor gove a clear indication that his rela- tips with British officials in this country were by no means entirely amleable.

HICH

W

TALE OF TWO PENALTIES

Nobody seemed side the penalty area. That vigour, and over went Mutch, to bother much pot-hole, they declared, marked floundering about on the penalty the pot where Hamilton hol edge liko a duck with stomach- about the ball. tackled Smith. Later, the slow che... Valide. Within ten motion films seemed to say o

Roberts

Penalty for Preston, said team

centre - forward too. lost secónda,

referee "Jowell—just us, reforço Was knocked

hact The FA Cup by

ordered for Sixteen your Haler, Preston Fowler the first-ever flying by a Hunddersfield took their revenge, and in cir Huddersfield 10 years earlier.

and; the pat- cumstances that provided what

Onco

again the crowd roared penalty goal in half-back ---

WAB set for a 90- must surely be the greatest Cup, approval or wrath at the justies the final? Preston North tern

the decision. And once again subsequent alms appeared o End-against Huddershold minute lesson on how not to coincidence of all time, in 1922.

play football:

Preston, we thought, would show the all-important tackle to place outside the After a while, all 63,000 of us cake-walk all over Huddersfield have taken

Lying third in the penalty area. on the terraces and in the stands 12 1038.

Lünenshire team ball-on- became resigned to the rubbish. League, the How were we to know they had been giving ware going to drop drama beng the ground artisty, from such 'Shut thee eyos..

Scottish Internationals as left- back Andrew Boottle, inside-

Ninety thousand of us watched right George "Sandy" Mutch

are Sandya-and in almost painful silence as all Mutcher right-half Shankley, Hudders- the injured Mutch, shaking off field, by contrast, were down in the ministrations of his trainer, the ball on the spot, the near-relegation doldrums of placed

and booted it past the, Hudders- the First Division.

feld goalkeeper.Hestora, io avenge the calamity of 1922.

Which team, in one of the most dramatic finals of all time, won by a penalty goal after extra time and within 80 seconds of a replay? into our laps?

North End- Preston

Billy Smith set off for the Huddersfield ugainst

down time

the umpteenth Huddersfield left wing, zold a 1988.

Penalty goals are not the dummy to Duxbury, Preston's and made full-pelt only coincidence of those right-half,

A he neared the for goal. Preston-Huddersfield

penally arca, over came Hamil- finals of riotous memory. lon, the right-back and...binga!

two

Incredible Cup Finals

By George Whiting

There was Smith, undoubtedly As a humble spectator of both, at Stamford Bridge charged from behind, and just his # undoubtedly lying on in 1922 and Wembley in back in the mud of the penalty

1938. I and hundreds other impartial

middle

pre- IDW

"Both he and his Duchem

of area. Referee Fowler pointed

to the "spot" dramatically made it obvious that they were

while the whole Preston teami more than willing to talk to the

although this morning aged characters are

heaven that the cried to high Press,

tackle had occurred Hamilton Rete RacColl, the Briti h Presspared to swear

told

that neither of those two on the legitimate" side of the representative in charge,

Windsors wou.c reporters the

spot-kicks should have been line. Interviews while ther give no were here.

That hus heen the followed on their entire trip. ha sak. 'No Interviews."

even

Controlled by Londoner A, J. Jowell, # referte who brooked no funny business, this Cup Final was reckoned to be a walk over for proud Preston.

Only later, in the Preston dressing-room, did we hear how Tom Shh, their centre-halt and explain, hnd searched swift- But things went wrong for ly but vainly among his team them from the start. Hudders for n volunteer to take the kick. fekt would have been at least

Icas

two up had they turned to "Which way shall. I kick it?" proper and

excitable asked the bemused, Mutch. account the gilt-edged openings

made for them by spring-heeled "Shut thee eyes and hit the Joe Hulme on the right-wing, ruddy thing," came a reply in Hulme, his Arsenal glories be broad and bated Lancashire, hind him was playing in his fifth Cup Final at Wembley that afternoon a professional record that still stands.

Mutch goes over

Sandy Mutch did just that,

my

permitted. In cach сане Was it a penally offence of slogged away with much spirit before the ball twisted into the

that

bul little

丰

"As I took my rum, I work dered what I was doing, and why," he said. "I crashed at the ball with

my instep, and only when I made contact with boot did I realise I was laking a penalty shot with only Goals were not our portion a few seconds to go in a Cup

and Preston

It seemed like an hour Huddersfield Final. we claimed

the wom't it? Reterwe Fowler sald

Inspiration through net," pollccidents" that had us howl- it was. Smith, the long-service the normal 90 minutes, past the

justice winger to

But it seemed like 16 years whom Huddersfield first period of extra time, and ing for blood and

benefits picked to within exactly one minute to Preston North End: occurred outside the penalty had paid four

Cup Final replay

(COPYRIGHT) himself off the ground, collected of the fryi his wobbly wits, and slammed since 1912. Then, with hundreds Blunderball

that the spot kick past the bespec- streaking homeward out

Wembley, it happened. was the kind of rough- teled Mitchell, neck,

stuff kick-and-hack

Some of the crowd cheered. in 1922, in

them of they gave un the last Cup Final to be hundreds played at Stamford Bridge, the pitch He Making due allowances all the

they pointed to a Huddersfield's square-shouldered Cup out of England for Excitedly. round, I would say that divot hele at least a foot out- "captain, cut across, tackled with the first and only time. Lancashire's Preston

"A

when few minutes later, the Duke and Duchess appeared in the Starlight Room to pue for photographers and newsreel cameras, the Duke left his wife's alde to speak to Mr MacColl. on his fact

ble sense of grievance. One or two half uittered allusions; one or wo expressions we enough

we were

on

The Duke and Duchess spent a day in Miami,....

Next day

off for the Scubourd Wahington Aldine Railroad As we clar- Lored aboard the big steel coaches the story which was to dog the Windsors was already starting the number of pieces of luggage, and the number of re- tabers which they had brought with them.

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The estimate of the number I pieces of baggage varied be- 1wen 35 and 80-with 80 the Intre generally accepted figure. I don't

whal the real know ligune

11 was the was, but nawrd which was likely in this

of situation.

.011

It grew until it was so out of hand that no amount of dental would ever catch up with it.

it would probably have been egarded impertinent and urcalled for if I had tried giving The Duke of Windsor advice on

8.5

where he ought to stay while in

New York.

MY CRITICS ....... THE PRESS

YET It was manifestly not a

"When I do the talking. 1 want to do it alone, he said to MacColl, and clapped his hands In a gesture of dismissal, reemed eiern, even 'grim

STICKING MY CHIN OUT TOMORROW afternoon Sir Gerald Campbell, who is in charge of the British Press information in the United States, will give a tea for the Windsors and the Press at the Waldorf.

This noon the Duke raid he would have something to say at the bea..

area.

and

Yorkshire's Huddersfield,

served up the dirtiest final) of all time that rainy after- noon 34 years ago.

He wore glasses

And we thought they were two such wonderful

"Later, however, Mr. MacColl insisted that no direct interview teams! would be given by the Duke at land's

tomorrow's tea."

Wadsworth, Eng- left-back, the re-

more

ct

George Mutch, Preston's Next

Saturday,

George

boord, and midget inside-right, set off on Whiting tells of the 1927 of them stampeded what appeared to be yet an Final, when Cardiff City nd the end to inspect other abortlys dribble towards host. Arsenal to take the FA

Centre-half Alf Young, crime reerio of the

goal.

Reliability...

ཝུཏྟཏྟཾ, ཡྻུཾ, ༣;,+༥), 6,

nowned Clem Stephenson...that's rugged for your roughest, toughest days

Thats MacColi for you (two always sticking his chin out....

The Windiors had about ve Aston

with Cup medals

Villa) and Billy outside-

or six days of their visit left to Smith, England's

of those "diplomatic illnesses, "

go when I was quietly with left, were the Huddersfield drawn from the P. R. job. One"keys" from whom we were told to expect miracles of you read about struck me

and precision. Later I got a pleasant letter position

In which he Preston offered us from the Duke

which

with

among

thanked me for the way in their galaxy the thrustful 1 hid porformed my Tom Roberts at centre- duties in very difficult circum- good idea for them to take a

unfailing forward, and amateur goal- and stances

the keeper J. F. Mitchell, slly suite up in the Waldorf tact." Towers, the

"Millionaire I dos't know if he suspected only player ever to parade Stratosphere," which is the what the song was. Probably in a final wearing spec- gossy annxe to the common- he did. But for those weeks I tacles.

from

Waldorf - Astoria

The Duke smiled and started to raise his hand in compliance, Suddenly he caught sight of the or garden Duchess staring at hiro intently.

llotel She shook her hand. The Duke Whether Windsor suite

the dropped his arm.

was free or not is irrelevant in 120 1980's, along the

To main slender was an

the public relations point. French Riviera, you could and

with the Duchess, of view. On top of the baggage did encounter any number of obsession

The Duke ry, the Windsors were now ladies who were rather of the She detested it.

hard at retaining his conced In some of the *hiches general stamp; the worked

He greatest hotel luxury they could quick-witted, well own boyish, lissome figure,

world go off every morning for possibly have found. dressed American women,

The Press of violent

working set up beadquarters downstairs and i

ars

or more

I did not see, beyond a most an hour

domination of her exercise, squash I think it must

and.

noticeable husband, any remarkable trait for character. nor any great originality in the Duchess, fier conversation was "brittle often gay; the perfect counter- point for dinner-party.

THE DUKE AND KING BORIS

UTI in vain for the BUT waited in crack, about which I had heard so much the memorable mot or dovaria

had felt like someone who was masquerading as a midwife but whose intentions are in reality of a different kind.

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In a League match the previous week, Huddersfield had beaten Preston 6-0, and come Final day, the boys got "stuck in" from the "Deadline and Dateline h by start. The referee J. W. D. Rene MacColl, will be published this monik by the Oldbourne Press at 15.

of Fowler,

Sunderland, I-never caught up with them.

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