Foreign News: Want Him Back!

The 44th birthday of the Duke of Windsor passed by in Great Britain last week with no other press notice than a seven-word announcement in the London Daily Telegraph. But the society of The Octavians, several hundred Britishers who have banded together to perpetuate the memory of the Duke as Edward VIII, were determined to accord the day more formal recognition. Some 250 members, largely middle-aged men and women, crowded into a second-rate restaurant in London's Holborn district for a commemorative dinner and dance. From the French Riviera, where he is summering with...

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