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Postscript

And do you think we are talking about Hitler or Mussolini or the Kings Speech? Not a bit of it. The King himself & Mrs Simpson form the sole & abiding topic of conversation. It has forced itself on us all at once, for the divorce has a devastating revelation of his intentions. The way it was managed - the provincial secrecy, the absence of comment, and the evidence of the most adroit handling - combined to make something akin to a panic. Yesterday a French wireless station gave a statement of the date of the marriage. She was in the House of Lords Gallery during the King's speech - among the Ambassadresses. I hear the most violent resentment against the whole thing. A month ago we were inclined to laugh, now we are frightened of a first class constitutional crisis. There is already talk of the method which cd. be adopted to force an abdication. [?] are weak and flabby - they ought have had him at the moment of King George's death. The conspiracy of silence on the part of our newspapers proves giving the King a false sense of security which is mostly noteworth dispelled. His Carklin is one of Maudlin infatuation.