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¶The Duke of Windsor was again last week the.subject of a "scoop" Hearst report, Mr. Hearst having originally scooped the Duke's resolve to marry Mrs. Simpson and his wish to make her his morganatic wife (TIME, Nov. 16). The Duke, announced Hearst Universal Service, "has decided to write a book in defense of Jews. ... To the question of whether he thinks such a book expedient at the present time, the former King Edward VIII answered: 'To know what is the right thing to do and not to do it is cowardice.' Baron Rothschild, the Duke's host, has placed his library at Edward's disposal. . . . The Duke told friends the motto of the work would be Ich Dien ('I Serve')." This is the hereditary motto of the Prince of Wales.
As grand figures in International Jewry, the House of Rothschild could have planned no coup more dazzling than to have their race defended by the abdicated King of England in a book carrying on its cover the three plumes of the Prince of Wales and his motto Ich Dien. In England, where the name of Montague has a definitely Jewish ring, the fact that Mrs. Simpson is descended from the Gentile and aristocratic Montagues of Virginia has been, quite erroneously, held as a point against the Woman of 1936. The Duke of Windsor, as midnight tolled in the Year 1937, clapped Baron Rothschild warmly around the shoulder, kissed the Baroness ("Kitty") Rothschild heartily and ran off to ring up Mrs. Simpson in Cannes.
¶The Rev. Dr. C. H. D. Grimes, Pastor of the English Church in Vienna, revealed this week that his Anglican superiors have cracked down on him, demanding to know why he did not "ask someone's advice" before he allowed abdicated Edward VIII to read the scripture lesson in his church on Christmas (TIME, Jan. 4). Since the British Minister to Austria was present and made no objection, Dr. Grimes last week was flabbergasted to discover that he had enraged Church authorities in England who are apparently resolved to keep the Duke of Windsor an everlastingly damned sinner. Hedged Pastor Grimes: "The idea . . . did not come from me, but from the Duke himself." It had been well understood by the British colony in Vienna that the marriage of the Duke & Mrs. Simpson would be performed next spring by Dr. Grimes. Quaking last week, he cried: "To arrange even a single detail of such a ceremony now would be to provide evidence of collusion, which all parties are seeking to avoid!"