Foreign News: Innocents Abroad

Sir Ronald Lindsay, the moose-tall Ambassador at Washington of His Britannic Majesty, eschewed last week each of his many opportunities to correct or deny the extraordinary dispatches which hourly arrived from London concerning Edward VIII, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, Ireland and the Dominions Beyond the Seas, King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India.

The British Ambassador might have taken exception to the Washington Post's assertion that King Edward "plans to marry" Mrs. Ernest Simpson. Or Sir Ronald might have objected to the United Press story carried from coast...

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