People: People, Jun. 9, 1947

The Duke of Windsor, on his stopover in Britain (en route to the south of France), paid a quiet call on Prime Minister Clement Attlee at No. 10 Downing Street, stayed 40 minutes, departed by the back door. The inside dopesters concluded (as they did last year, when the Duke also visited the P.M. and left by the back door) that Windsor would presently have a job with the Empire. Four days later everybody was still waiting, ears hopefully cocked.

In Manhattan, ex-Prince Carl Johan of Sweden, Windsor's second cousin, who also married a commoner (and relinquished his rights of succession), had...

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