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Maps of these lands and grave legal comment on the treaty situation are now beginning to appear in London. It is not felt that any of the onetime German colonies now forming an integral part of the British Empire can or should be returned to Germany. In this connection the new King some years ago proved himself sound when a U. S. Senator suggested that since Britain was unable to pay her War debt in cash the Empire might. prefer to dis charge its obligation by ceding the British West Indies to the U. S. in part payment. In Barbados immediately afterward Edward VIII, then Prince of Wales, made a vigorous speech which loyal Britons last week recalled with pride in their new King. "The King's subjects are not for sale to other governments!" he cried. "Their destiny as free men is in their own hands. Your future is for yourselves to shape!"
Apart from such reservations against schemes concocted overseas, His Majesty has said: "The peace of the world depends upon the friendly association of the two great English-speaking peoples. Only the United States and Great Britain working together and in perfect harmony can pre vent the world from drifting into helpless anarchy and barbarism. That is the true mission of our two peoples. I have thought about it a great deal and I know of no other way out." Analysis of Edward. Decidedly up-to-date, new King Edward analyzes men by the standards of science and, thus analyzed, His Majesty is especially interesting.
Thus far the King's respiratory system has not shown the House of Windsor's traditional weakness in the chest which made catching cold a mortal danger to Edward VII and George V.
The circulatory system is vigorous and the glandular balance is such as to make King Edward a man who for 20 years has kept going at a pace which runs his aides-de-camp, his servants and friends ragged.
The new King's activity is of a different sort from that of the late Prince Consort Albert, who toiled night & day over the lustiest and most arduous matters of state but it does suggest that Edward VIII has stuff in him likely to ripen on the Throne. No woman has ever pleased Majesty unless she was what King Edward calls "snappy" — that is, active, a good dancer, ebullient, high-strung. In horses he has the same taste and the number of ebullient horses which have fallen with His Majesty, spraining his ankle, breaking his collarbone, once kicking him squarely in the face, is further evidence of the stuff in him. In the air King Edward mostly leaves the piloting of his luxurious plane to a professional, playing the genial host to friends above the clouds and shaking cocktails.
Unlike Edward VII, who came to the throne at 59 with many long-cultivated acquaintances among British statesmen, Ed ward VIII is to the Prime Minister and executives of the British Empire almost a stranger — a singularly young-looking man of 41 whom they are accustomed to see pop in at a banquet, toy briefly with cold chicken washed down by Scotch & splash while others chomp the hot roast-beef of Old England, and then, after delivering a brief address, pop off.