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Show Tha Lirtlene$$ of Power ON the night when Edward quit England's throne and voiced to the world his manly decision, de-cision, and accepted exile, it would seem that premier and primate, royalty and commoners, U British officialdom, the press and all others arrayed against him could have realized that Power had exacted from him everything that he could give to satisfy reasons of state and to pay hit decreed debt to society. In that hour he stood stripped of rank and its habiliments and was but one human being among the world's teeming millions. He had made a human decision, driven by human impulse, emotion, emo-tion, intelligence and judgment as he possessed them. Let those who are informed of all the facts Judge the Tightness or the wrongness of his acta as England'! king remembering that he paid an Incalculable price to his people, to their government govern-ment and to the House of Windsor. What need to hark back now to those days? Making haste to leave his country for asylum . elsewhere, he faced the trying problem of discovering dis-covering peace, and of trying to forget what he never can forget We hope he has found peace and bappineesa in the marriage for which he forfeited the world's proudest throne and crown. We hope love and loyalty will bind this man and his bride to the end of life. We hope that a world coming to ita senses belatedly will let them live as they desire, permit them to have a home they can cherish, and leave off visiting upon them an endless succession of vulgarities and cruelties. All of that has been denied them thus far. In the land where he was born to be a king and abroad where as a lone and unhappy man enduring endur-ing incivilities unnumbered. Power has pursued him with littleness incomprehensible. The banalities banali-ties of the rabble have been no less and no more than would be expected anywhere. It is the sadistic treatment from those whose self-respect should forbid it that shrinks them in world esteem es-teem and multiplies friendship everywhere for the duke and duchess. Through it all he has behaved as an English gentleman of tradition and shes a woman earning the world's respect. |