LON.DOM LI -L In London they!ve been using the words — Constitutional crisis. Tonight that usage is doubly and triply justified. The expression !,royal romance11 becomes rather insignificant in the face of what ixacc is most profoundly — a Constitutional crisis, one that cuts right to the bottom of the system of the British Empire. unchangeably In opposition to the marriage of Edward VIII and Mrs. Simpson.^He said tha* there was no such thing as a j morganatic marriage in the law of England. The King*s wife necessarily becomes the (Jieen. He emphasized the significance of the word Queen by referring to — Her Late Majesty Queen Alexandria, and Her Majesty Queen Mary. The Prime Minister admitted that it would be possible to enact legislation which would permit King Edward to marry Mrs. Simpson without also making her Queen. But, Baldwin added, "His Majesty^ Government Today Prime Minister Stan__, _____________ ____ ____ laration ( In the House of Commons. He put his Government completely and are not prepared to introduce such legislation.” And thatts LOMDQK - g as loud a way of saying MO as a British prime Minister permits himself. Then he resorted to the most powerful argument ol all. He xp* spoke of the British Dominions, those semi- independent nations held together only by the Crown of England, These are his wads: "Such a change," said he, "could not he' effected without the assent of all the^Dominions." But did Jtexn=S±mps©i*» The Prime Minister said 10. "I am satisfied from inquiries I have made," he declared, "that this assent would not be forthcoming." As they listened to tfhis the members of Parliament knew quite well that the leaders in the Dominions are opposed to the Kingr s marriage. For example, there*s Canada. The Canadian government is reported — backing Baldwin. King Edward has his friends and supporters, many of them. But Canadian would the Dominions give l^ass ent marriage adviS^i point?to the powerful Catholic element,and* especially A. the French Canadians - who are fervently opposed to divorce LQHDQM - 5 The Canadian newspapers lor the most part call upon the King to sacrifice his personal inclinations. oprp • m mm § • mm • »- * curious sidelight — an editorial in the l*r&*X^QL Quebec Chronical Telegraph, today^ the abdication of Edward VIII is considered in these roundabout words:- ”Knowing the taste of His Majesty,” says the Quebec paper, *and his love of Canada, stranger things have happened than that he should take up his resldenee^near Calgary Alberta.n he Chronica; another country for the Kingfs residence, should he quit the The Chronical-Telegraph goes on to suggest still throne. What country? The Quebec paper mentions the origin of Mrs.Simpson, remarks that the Kingis immense popularity in the United States would be increased by his giving up his throne for an American wife. It concludes that the couple might go to live in the United Stages. Wouldn’t that be something for the tabloids? FOLLQV LONDON i. i- opposition ol the Dominions was a dominating thorn ht in the British Parliament today. The Commons can legislate for I ng :.and, bu+ not for Canada, South Africa, Austrl ia or New Zealand. polltic s must reckon with the solemn fact that there 1 s not only England to be considered, but t’ho whole empire. lt» proceedings were nervous, jittery. There was unusual confusion. ^ While the Prime' Minister was being questioned there was an episode which shows how one particular name was in every mind in London today, iou can ruess the nam^. Several members clamored to be recognised by the Chair — one was especially insistan*. The perplexed and perspiring speaker banged his gavel and called to that pertinacious member of Parliament: »?Ali right, ?«r. Simpson, all right!11 A hush fell upon the House of Commons. There an k.P. named Simpson, but^ he was not amonr those present. Tne speatcer blushed scarlet — vias his face red! »'I mean," he stammered, "I mean Mr. Jagg or." a slip of speech by the speaker of the House of Colons - that*. ^ an indie; tion of the Parliamentary jitters today. ffOLLO'' L01rf)0: r - 2 Oj jOslbiOii uO' the tierrlti^’e oulminated. wi/th the report tit t if 'in ; fdward insists on the v/eddiin; he demands, Ciueeii !*a 17 ' will retire from ell private appearances, and will go into seclusion. ,!e are told of the .iueen ?'other 1 s outbreak of tears when her oldest son went to see her. They say the puke and Dutchess of Yor!:, next in line to the succession, are de­ termined that if the TCLno rmkefl the marriage - they -hill leave Sng'land , will re udre to the oontinent. Tha L 1 s how muck opposed they are. The puke of York has been much in evidence in London as the heir presump tive, the one who would succeed to the crown sh on Id t: i© "in: a b d i o a t e . La a t : i i * h t ’ ;e he a rd h ov; 1»r i t le ! 'inis ter B © M w in ha d given the Yin: until seven o'clock tonight to make up his mind. Bald win ’Tent to see the Ying. The y ooiii erred ©ud. the I rime I finis ter announced to the ivwaitiiY: press: — You mighb as well ;o hone, gentlemen. I ■ill make my statement tomorrow morniii; at ten o'cloak." Tonight, the Grown of England Ain the balance follow lo :; ) o :: - 3 Vie is rePOr1i0d i’il’KL ever in his determination to marry Fra. Simpson. But she lias left England, gone to France - seelcin.; quie o iro:. the x>0^-itic£il turnioil her ror^anoe has stirred up.^ Today in France a j'renoh actress tried to snap a picture of tne fleeinp ^merioan woman. TIrs. Siupsonfs chauffeur intei^posed violently; knocked the oamera out of the hand of the actress and her hat off too. h nan tried to take a picture. The chauffeur slapped down his earner©. The nan struck hack, a quick exchange of hlov/s. SO tonijht ”i i;- Fdv/ard is left alone to face the battle, h story came out today in v/hieh an Englishman is quoted as sayi ; the Fin.; has already become tired of the romance, won’t be too ora 'ioally oast do-n if he breaks with Frs. Simpson. There­ fore, says this Englishnan, the o *isis will blow over — with no wedding, hut uhe /ord from London iii no wise bears this out. The news reports shoo Edward the Fighth as strong wia-led as ever. Indeed (lihe prospects of a monumental battle in British politics flared today with the mention of the name oi winston church hill. :ho bold and darin,'! Chui'ohhill said to be ^tending in support FOLLOW LOUDON - 4 of the Ling,/ All of whioh has this important angle: -suppose the r:ing insists on marriage, and also refuses to abdicate? Suppose the Baldwin Cabinet resigns? Then, the next step of the monarch might be to oall upon any prominent politioal personality, any former Cabinet minister, and ask him to fom a Cabinet, Thatfs where Winston Churohill fits into the pioture. He might line up a ministry and go before the House of Commons, He would surely be defeated, voted down, v/hioh would be his oue to move for an eleotion, "go to the country.M in that case the question of the King and itrs• Simpson would become the issue in a politioal campaign and an astonishing politioal campaign it would bel Winston Churohill, who has no party of his own, would lead a ouase that would be merely the King's auestion of marriage, Churohill would certainly make a flaming fighter, A descendant of the Duke of Marlborough, First Lord of the Admiralty during the World War, former Chanoellor of the ‘Rxohequer, stormy petrel of British politics — he is a brilliant and formidable campaigner F0LL07 LONDON - 5 In an eleotion. He would oarry the King's cause to the people in thundering style, Kdward the Kighth believes he has the masses of G-reat Britain on his side. For he is a King who champions the poor. His hope is that his popularity would oarry the day. And the British masses seem to be with him, to a large extent. Tonight in London parades are marching the streets with torches and flares. Workin^^aen cheering and shouting; — "Long live the King"* Just suppose that mighty popularity should triumph? Suppose the vote of England should sanction the King's marriage to Mrs. Simpson, by sending a parliamentary majority in favor? ih Still - there remain the British domi^ons who are not governed by the British parliament and who have their own word to say about the crown of the empire • SO therein lies the meaning of those two words that are being spoken everyw lore In England: —- Constitutional Crisisi TIME Here's a postscript to the news from London — a finishing touch. Each year Time Magazine takes a poll of its readers to select the most prominent personality of the year. Today this year's poll is announced. First comes President Roosevelt, undoubtedly the man of the year. Then King Edward VIII of England. Next to that monarch of crisis and controversy — guess who? Mrs. Simpson. She takes third place as the year's outstanding personality.1'Going down along the line we find — n /V ha Governor Landon, Postmaster General Farley, Blaekshis't Dictator Mussolini. Home Hun HitterLou Gehrig, and Doc Tovmsend,/Old Age Pensiona^ That takes us down to ninth place among the world personalities. And who do we find here? Mr. Simpson -- hy wrmJil Ernest A. Simpson. That certainly is a finishing touchA j$Kx today's story of •■kingly crisis in London. FOLLOW Kim Liiie Hamlet, Jrinoe of Denmark, King Edward today is asrving himself: "To be or not to be." Endless quotations X rom Shakespeare are applicable in this crisis involving the throne of England. Having just come from seeing Hamlet for a second time in a fortnight X find myself thinking and speaking a bit like Shakespearers characters. At any rate I came away from the second Hamlet unable to decide which X like the better, the Gielgud or the Leslie Howard - but leaning toward the latter. They are utterly different, and it's hard to compare them. Both are superb. Having seen one, I found myself getting double enjoy­ ment out of the other. A chance to see two such Hamlets in the same season is rare indeed. iitffiiiTi:1: ■ s p. . JiAVX'ct . 7 ^ . ^ q /f 3^ JI . ■■■ v AVIATION I brought an aviator here to the studio with me tonight* borne might say he is the top-ranking aviator in the world just now. And they wouldn't be far wrong, I thought maybe he'd be willing to tell us a thrill story. But I guess I'll have to give it up and tell him one. Captain Edwin iiusick, the chief pilot of Pan-American Airways Pacific Division, who was Capt. on the first trans-Pacific passenger flight. How many of those across-the-ocean hops have you made altogether. Captain? MUBICK: - I've made the flight eight times, Lowell, But as I've been telling you, I haven't any thrills to tell. To us in the Pan-American service, it's strictly routine, just running to schedule. L.T.:- ¥es, Ed Musick has been saying that it's all been uneventful, work—a—day —— those stupendous airline voyages Ban Francisco, Honolulu, Midway Island, Wake Island, Guam, and Manila. That's a tip-off to the mechanical efficiency and technical organization of up-to-date passenger flying. Those Pan Americanpilots are the ultra-modern Aind of aviator methodical, coldly efficient, strictly non-thrill, iou were AVIATION - k. telling me. Captain, that you started flying in 1913, one of a group of three. MU d ICK:- Yes, that was back in the early days of primitive equipment and. ramshackle planes. There were three of us out on the Coast, he did out early flying together, but even then we didn't run into any thrills, :- Anything special about that little group of serious aviators? aUbICJi: - Only this, Lowell, they're all still alive. L.T.:- Alive and still flying — after those harum-scarum aviation days of old. bounds rather remarkable, that, bo I 0 / guess it's no wonder a pilot like you regards^Pan-A merican voyage across the Pacific about the same as the Captain of an ocean liner. MUoiCn: - That's the way we feel about it, so, for an avia­ tion thriller, if one is told, you'll have to tell it yourself L.T.s- Well, you can always tell one aboflt Bert Acosta. I recall when Bert was a test pilot taking up a new type of ship. He's an engineer himself, and he told the builder that the plane was constructed wrong. Said that on landing the ^VIiy-Tloa - 5 contraption wou*.d buckle, the cockpit would collapse and fold right over, "however," said Bert, "I'll tanie it up." And he did. He flew it around, and then landed, as the wheels touched earth, Bert ducked, -^t was one of those old-fashioned cockpits — the aviator's head sticking up. And it was lucky he did duck. Because, Just as the plane landed it buckled. The cockpit folded, with edges shearing together like a pair of scissors. |f Bert hadn't ducked he would have been the headless aviator'. xPoIC-n:- well, those were the old days'. Mei e s dii item from a part of the world you .know so well Captain; a touch of Coleridge In the news today, the poet Coleridge who wrote the well remembered classics about the ancient “ariner and Kublai Khan. But tonight’s story starts out with a strike, a walk­ out in some Japanese textile mills. At TsingTao, the Chinese city which Germany held before the &orld War. We heard last night how the Japanese had landed soldiers at TsingTao, say­ ing they had to protect iTapan’s interests in the strike complication. Tonight the Chinese are denouncing this new­ est Japanese putsch — saving there’s no real reason for it, that the strike is about settled, everything returning to normal. They add — that the real motives is to offset loss of prestige that Tokio has experienced in recent events in Mongolia, — those Mongolian raids into China. The Chinese claim the attacking forces were incited by Japan and are commanded by Japanese officers. Also that the Chinese have beaten off the attacks. Hence the loss of prestige, and now with Great Britain and other countries busy at home, the Japanese are gobbling up more of China. Cnlfliit -is- A1I 01 this is echoed by word from Mongolia where new ar.ued forces are being mobilized for another drive against the Chinese, They will be attacking soon^ says word from the Far hast — unless Indeed the new outbreak of fighting is going on right now. The Mongolian attack is being -prepared at the town of bhang-Tu — and this is what takes us. to the poet Coleridge. For bhang-Tu is nothing but a slightly varied form of the famous old name Xanadu. That was once a great place in the medieval empire of the Mongolians, In the time of Kublai Khan, bo we have those famed lines of Coleridge:- "In Xanadu did Kublai Khan a stately pleasure dome decree.n But in Xanadu tonight there is no “stately pleasure dome.1' A Mongolian army is gathering there — a sign of new trouble in the Far ^ast L.i'UUUJLt ill L-IJiCJ i.’ di —^ v-*. ^ ^ — ' A I H iU rvWvi4^|A