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Retorted Mrs. Simpson, "Well, your brothers have!" As His Majesty would not wear one of Their Royal Highness' fur coats, Mrs. Simpson who knows his susceptibility to catching cold, tactfully and with strength of character overcame the King's reluctance to put on the dead King's coat.
¶Herr Professor Doktor Heinrich Neumann, the famed Vienna ear, nose & throat specialist to whom Mrs. Simpson has repeatedly taken "The Little Man," as she often calls him, was announced last week to have quit Austria and accepted a post at Oxford University, permitting him to attend His Majesty whenever required—this notwithstanding the official denial of the British Legation in Vienna last summer that Dr. Neumann had found anything whatever the matter with the King's ears.
*It was anticipated that all these Britons would enter denials for the record and Editor Dawson of the Times led with this dignified disclaimer: "I am not in a position to know anything about the matter and consequently could not have made and have not made any such statement." Meanwhile the few thousand Britons who own radio sets able to pick up U. S. broadcasts about the King & Mrs. Simpson, bombarded Editor Dawson with letters demanding that the Times either present the facts or if U. S. journalism were in error, come to the defense of the King in its editorial columns. With such letters piling up in every London editor's office this week, the entire British Press continued unanimously to ostrich.
*The Duke is already heir to the Throne, but what might be contemplated is an act of Parliament vesting the succession in York and his heirs to the exclusion of any child fathered by the King.