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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Kiii Edward Abdicates and Is Succeeded Ly Duke of York Pope Stricken With Paralysis Wallace Promises I'etter Farm Program. By EDWARD W. PICKARD Western Newspaper Uniim. T OVEiand the British constitution ''are the winners In the great contest that has stirred the vast empire to its furthest borders. Ed ward vm, steadfast stead-fast in his determination determin-ation to make Mrs. W a 1 1 1 s Warfleld Simpson his wife, abdicated as king of Creat Britain and emperor of India, and his brother, the duke of York, reigns in his stead as George VI. Edward's fateful decision was com- Edward VIII - . ' A George VI municated to the house of commons com-mons by Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. Haggard and deeply moved, the man who has born the brunt of the struggle on behalf of the cabinet and parliament handed the speaker the royal message and the speaker read it to the hall stunned members. This is what Edward Ed-ward said: "Realizing as I do the gravity of this step I can only hope that I shall have the understanding of my peoples peo-ples in the decision I have taken and the reasons which have led me to take it. "I conceive that I am not overlooking over-looking the duty that rests on me to place in the forefront the public interest when I declare that I am conscious that I can no longer discharge dis-charge this heavy task with efficiency effi-ciency or with satisfaction to myself. my-self. "I have accordingly this morning executed an instrument of abdication abdica-tion in the terms following: " 'I, Edward VIII of Great Britain, Brit-ain, Ireland, the British dominions beyond the seas, king, emperor of India, do hereby declare my irrevocable irre-vocable determination to renounce the throne for myself and my descendants. de-scendants. My desire is that effect should be given to this instrument of abdication immediately. " 'In token thereof I have hereunto hereun-to set my hand this 10th day of December, 1936, in the presence of the witnesses whose signatures are subscribed." " There followed a request that the accession of his brother to the throne be expedited, and accordingly according-ly enabling legislation effecting the abdication and the accession of the new king was promptly introduced and put through the house of commons com-mons and the house of lords. The new king was proclaimed with the traditional ceremony following fol-lowing an assembly of the accession acces-sion council made up of privy councilors coun-cilors and other distinguished persons. per-sons. That evening the ex-king went on the air to broadcast a message of farewell to the half billion people who had been his subjects. Edward left England for his self-Imposed self-Imposed exile and probably never 's f, will return to his native na-tive land. Where he will make his home has not been announced. an-nounced. It was stated in Cannes, where Mrs. Simpson was with friends, that he would not go there now. "Wally" had publicly offered to renounce her association as-sociation with the king if that would settle ine controversy, out ne cnose otherwise. Her divorce would not become be-come absolute until April 27, but steps were taken in London to speed up the date. Notwithstanding the widespread sympathy for Edward and his once enormous popularity, the general sentiment throughout the British empire is now that he let his country coun-try down, that he mainly was to blame for bringing on the crisis and, to quote one correspondent, that "the cabinet's victory was the only possible victory which could be allowed on the present issue." The great majority of the people did not think Mrs. Simpson, a commoner and twice divorced, was fit to be queen of England. The cabinet and the house of commons emphatically vetoed a morganatic marriage. If he would be true to his love, there was nothing left for the king to do but abdicate. For a day after announcing his resignation of the throne, Edward remained king. But as soon as parliament par-liament passed the abdication measure mea-sure it was carried to him, and the moment he signed the document Edward ceased to reign. It was presumed that, with the permission permis-sion of the new king, Edward would retain the duchy of Cornwall and its revenues. With his other resources re-sources he goes into exile with an annual income of about $500,000. Li all the British dominions steps were taken to ratify the abdication abdica-tion of the king and the accession of the duke of York. There was considerable uneasiness concerning the ccurse the legislature of the Irish Free State might pursue, for events seemed to give Ireland the chance to shake off the last vestiges of adherence to the British empire. CROM Manila came belated dis- patches telling of the worst disaster dis-aster that ever befell the Philippines Philip-pines a great flood which swept through the fertile and densely populated pop-ulated Cagayan valley in northern Luzon and destroying possibly thousands thou-sands of the inhabitants. The full extent of the death toll may never be known. The waters of the Cagayan river, suddenly swollen by a typhoon and torrential rains, inundated in-undated many villages and towns in the 50 mile wide valley. So isolated was the stricken area that a former provincial military commander com-mander required four days to fight his way to an outlying point from which he informed the world of the disaster. Military airplanes were used to carry medical supplies and relief agents to the district. STRICKEN with paralysis that affected af-fected both his legs. Pope Pius XI was believed to be in a serious condition because he already was afflicted with asthma, asth-ma, arterio sclerosis sclero-sis and high blood pressure. At first the holy father flatly flat-ly refused to submit to a medical examination, exam-ination, saying "1 am in the hands of God," and he even insisted on dictating and signing letters. But later he was persuaded to take r t i YYr Pope Pius complete repose, which his physicians physi-cians said was vitally necessary. Father Agostino Gemelli of Milan, a medical expert, was summoned to Vatican City and gave out a statement state-ment indicating that rigid measures meas-ures were being taken to stave off possible uremic poisoning. The pope's illness was discovered when he was unable to arise for a ceremonial concluding a week of spiritual exercises. He was barely able to stir the left leg and physicians physi-cians found that the heaviness of limb had spread also to the right leg. MEMBERS of the American Farm Bureau federation, assembled as-sembled in Pasadena, Calif., were told by Secretary of Agriculture Wallace that the government would provide a better farm program than the AAA; but he also said the farmer must be willing to accept "small increases in the imports of certain agricultural products." "In the cause of peace," he said, "the farmers of the United States must learn to say 'yes' as often as possible to agricultural imports from Pan-America, while at the same time reserving the right to say 'no' when any vital branch of agriculture is likely to be menaced by too great imports." Mr. Wallace declared the preservation preser-vation of world peace is more fundamental fun-damental than national agricultural conservation, and added, "there is an important relation between the two, however. Danger of the United States becoming involved in a serious se-rious war comes from the fact that we export goods to Europe and when war comes one side or the other interferes with trade. "Last year 68 per cent of our agricultural ag-ricultural exports went to five countries coun-tries which are certain to be involved in-volved in any major difficulty in Europe and Asia. Only 10 per cent of our agricultural exports went to Pan-America. Both our hearts and our heads lead us increasingly in-creasingly to Pan-America but the facts are stubborn and of necessity neces-sity can be brought in line with our desires only slowly." The federation conferred upon Mr. Wallace its highest honor, the award for distinguished service to agriculture. PLANS of John L. Lewis and his associate'' in the C. I. O. for organizing the automobile industry workers seemingly are greatly furthered fur-thered by the formation of a joint council of the United Automobile Workers of America and the Federation Fed-eration of Flat Glass Workers, These two unions, controlling as they do virtually organized workers work-ers in the automotive industry, have agreed to unite in a common cause in any controversy with the industry. indus-try. They are both members of the Lewis group and so are under suspension by the American Federation Fed-eration of Labor. FOR the first time the government has taken a hand in the steel labor la-bor crisis. The national labor relations re-lations board has issued a complaint com-plaint charging the United States Steel corporation and its subsidiary, subsidi-ary, the Carnegie-Illinois Steel company, with "interfering with the self-organization of employees" in Carnegie's 21 plants. This action followed the board's investigation of charges filed by Philip Murray, chairman of the SWOC and M. F. Tighe, veteran president of the Amalgamated Association As-sociation of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers. WITH the launching of the Gneisenau. her second 2G,000.-ton 2G,000.-ton battleship, Germany moved another an-other step toward her goal of a navy large enough to buttle up the Russian Rus-sian fleet. Reichsfuehrer Hitler and many high officials attended the ceremony. The ship was christened by Frau Maerker, widow of the commander of the old Gneisenau. which went down in the battle of the Faulkland islands 22 years ago. Berlin correspondents believe the new German fleet will have reached 420.000 tons by 1942. It will possess no less than five 35,000-ton battleships, battle-ships, to which can be added two 26,000-ton battleships, three existing 1,000-ton pocket battleships and fourteen light and heavy cruisers, including three more 10,000-ton boats. There will be 40 destroyers and torpedo boats, two airplane carriers car-riers and submarines up to the limit of the 1935 pact with Great Britain. f?RANCE and Great Britain united in an invitation to Germany, Italy, It-aly, Russia and Portugal to join them in an effort to end the Spanish Span-ish war by mediation. It was thought the time was ripe for this, since both the government forces and the rebels are exhausted by their fierce and inconclusive fighting. fight-ing. The announcement of the plan came on the eve of the meeting of the League of Nations council, summoned sum-moned to Geneva to consider the Madrid-Valencia government's appeal ap-peal against Germany and Italy because be-cause of their recognition of the Fascist rebel junta. It is the hope of France and Britain that the Spanish Span-ish people will be permitted to decide de-cide by ballot whether they shall have a Fascist or a SociaUst government, gov-ernment, FOURTEEN persons perished ' when a big Dutch airliner crashed near Croyden airport in England soon after taking off in a dense fog. The plane struck trees and houses and was destroyed by flames. Among the victims were Juan de la Cierva, inventor of the autogyro, and Admiral Saloman Lindman, former prime minister of Sweden. There were only three survivors sur-vivors of the disaster. HEADS of 21 delegations to the peace conference in Buenos Aires outlined national policies, and among them was Secretary of State Hull, who proposed a program containing contain-ing what he termed "eight pillars of peace" upon which rest peace and prosperity. pros-perity. These were: 1. Internal quiet and education. 2. Frequent international inter-national conferences. confer-ences. 3. Swift ratification ratifica-tion of existing peace pacts. Secretary Hull 4. Adoption of a common neutrality neutral-ity policy. 5. Fair and equal commercial policies. pol-icies. 6. Practical international cooperation. coopera-tion. 7. Strengthening of international law. 8. Faithful observance of the sanctity of treaties. Next day Mr. Hull offered a neutrality neu-trality pact for all American republics. repub-lics. His plan would create a permanent per-manent inter-American consultative committee to co-ordinate existing peace instruments and bring agreement agree-ment on a common neutrality policy, poli-cy, based on the United States' neutrality theory. JOHN HAMILTON, chairman of the Republican national committee, com-mittee, called a meeting of that body to be held in Chicago December Decem-ber 17, and announced that at that time he would submit his resignation. resigna-tion. Mr. Hamilton desires that the committee shall be able to address itself to the plans for a party comeback come-back with a clean slate and with new officers in command, if a change of personnel shall be deemed more conducive to success. The management of the late campaign cam-paign has been criticized by some leaders in the East, and also by a few of the most radical of the western leaders; but it may well be that the criticism represents only minority views of the committee and that Mr. Hamilton's resignation resigna-tion will not be accepted. SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY TREAS-URY HENRY MORGENTHAU anuounced the mid-December financing operations of the treasury, the main features being further borrowing and refunding that will put the national debt above 34 billion bil-lion dollars, lowered interest rates on government bonds and elimination elimina-tion of preferential treatment for the small investor. The secretary said that the December 15 financing, which includes the borrowing of 700 millions to cover continuation of deficits incurred, would be the last until March, when heavy income tax collections will pour into the treasury. Refunding raises the overall over-all amount of the financing to $1,-486,631,900. $1,-486,631,900. In announcing that the treasury would not permit the small investor inves-tor to have his subscription up to $5,000 met in full as ui tne past, but would be forced to accept a prorata pro-rata share just as is the big bond buyer, Morgenthau declare.! that the public had "abused" Ihe privilege. privi-lege. The plan "to give the little fellow a break" was initi..ti;d by Secretary Cgden Mills during the Hoover regime. |