GREAT BRITAIN: Unprivate Lives

¶Citizens of Aberdeen, embittered because King Edward, instead of opening their new hospital, met Mrs. Simpson at their railway station on her visit to Scotland (TIME, Oct. 5), chalked Aberdeen streets with the John Knoxian exhortation: "Down with the American Harlot!"

¶In London, Mrs. Simpson and Mrs. Bingham, wife of the U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James, both attended for the first time the same function, a musicale at the Yugoslav Legation.

¶A private telephone line last week connected Mrs. Simpson's town house with Buckingham Palace. Europeans recalled that Dowager Queen...

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