¶To crush Arab resistance to the policy of making Palestine a "national homeland" for Jews, King Edward was graciously pleased to sign at Balmoral Castle in Scotland last week an Order in Council submitted by His Majesty's Government.
Once the royal signature "Edward R. I." had been affixed, it became possible for grim-jawed Lieut. General John Greer Dill, commanding the new British Expeditionary Force in Palestine (TIME, Oct. 5), to: 1) impose censorship of the press and all communications; 2) issue regulations which, so long as they are in the form "for the public safety," may be of any kind General Dill thinks best and unchallengeable in any court of law; 3) order the arrest, detention or exclusion from Palestine of anyone; 4) order private property forfeited to the Crown or destroyed as a punitive measure. Arab leaders last week offered a reward of $2,500 for the death or capture of General Dill.*
¶ While Queen Mary waited sadly in Buckingham Palace for the ceremony marking her departure to live in Marlborough House last week, the King and Mrs. Simpson merrily boarded a special salon railway car at Aberdeen and set out for London, it being announced by the Sunday Referee that the wild strains of Hungarian gypsy music will soon be heard in Buckingham Palace. King Edward, in addition to inviting Turkish Dictator Mustafa Kamâl Atatürk to visit him in London, has also, according to the Referee, invited Koez Antal, "Hungary's Most Famous Gypsy Bandmaster,'' to give a concert for His Majesty's dinner guests at Buckingham Palace. That Mrs. Simpson was traveling with the King was officially announced by the Court Circular.
¶ On reaching London, Edward VIII drove to Buckingham Palace, breakfasted with Queen Mary and his sister the Princess Royal. Then a crowd gathered outside saw the Queen, her pallid face working with grief, leave the Palace on the arm of her son, after having resided there 25 years. Blue-coated Bobbies saluted, scarlet-clad Palace sentries presented arms, many women in the crowd wept, men cheered in hoarse, choked voices and Queen Mary with a visible effort just managed a slight wave of her white-gloved hand.
Instead of her previous nine ladies-in-waiting, Her Majesty will have five at Marlborough House. She takes with her Amelo, the French onetime No. 2 chef at Buckingham Palace; her principal chauffeur; and of course faithful Sir Harry Lloyd Verney, Treasurer and Private Secretary to the Queen.
¶ That King Edward has given jewelry worth $1,000,000 to Mrs. Simpson was asserted in the U. S. smartchart Town & Country last week with the comment: "The King is proud of her. Anyone bold enough to object to her being at the royal table would be quickly disgraced." In shipping $50,000 worth of this year's finest U. S. silver fox pelts to a "royal purchaser" in London last week, the Manhattan fur export firm's owner Julius Green hinted: "Some people take it for granted these silver foxes are a gift to Mrs. Simpson." Meanwhile Mr. Simpson was transferring his clothes from the Simpson flat to the Guards Club in London last week and Mrs. Simpson on October 7 was to move into her new Cumberland Terrace house, on the roof of which are figures of Love, Justice, Wisdom and Victory.