European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 26, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes monday. May 26.1936 columns & comments William Safire did Edward Hlll s weakness infect great Britain the posthumous publication of i love tellers Between mrs. Nilis. Simpson and King Edward Chi Calls id mind three moments in which the windsors As they came to be culled touched my life the first was in 9i7. As a boy i wandered Why my widowed Mother was weeping a hear the words of an abdicated British Monarch. At Long last. I can say a few words of Ray own the voice from Windsor Castle began Over he Static in a Farewell speech using he newer word radio for what had been called wireless. I have found it impossible to carry the heavy Burden ,. Without the help and support of the woman i  a generation later told my father in Law Albert Julius of London who had kept his Piccadilly jewelry store open during the Blu of my american mover s unexpectedly emotional reaction to that British trauma he remembered Edward s abdication much less senti mentally. He was convinced thai the decline of great Britain As a place where duty and responsibility came first could be traced to that moment of weakness and self indulgence when Edward quit. Finally in the mid-7qs, at a party to Benefit the Resto ration or versatile thai David Mohoney gave for Liza Minnelli us Maxim s restaurant in Paris 1 discovered my dinner partner was the Duchess of Windsor. The woman from Baltimore was an excellent conversationalist quickly putting me at Case with comments and questions about what was happening thai week in Paris some movie Star came by whose divorce had been in the Tom Wicker in pcs that Day and when he left the Duchess mentioned his marriage breakup to me. Adding in a kind of afterthought to was divorced you  did not have a response to that. What was a listener to say Vou bet 1 know you were divorced twice and that was Why the parliaments of Canada Australia and South Africa not to mention Britain s Royal family and the labor party insisted the King choose Between you and his Crown. Or you were divorced so that was what Al the fan was about instead i stuffed a canape in my to ouch and grunted now. A half Century after the speech that so touched the hearts of romantics everywhere we can de cide for ourselves about the Wisdom of Edward s Choice As we flip through the pages of the correspondence be tween a stubbornly vapid Young Man and a determined take charge Young woman. At one Point she addresses him As lightning brain one Hopes in irony. His letters Are simpering and Petu Lant and we Kin see How fortunate he was to have his purpose ennobled by Walter Monc Tori and Winston Churchill who drafted the Farewell speech. The Choice the Young King faced was Between love and duty. The question we re hash today is did he do the right thing most Young people and Many older people who experienced lifelong loneliness would answer yes. They coun Ter question by what right docs society or an establish men a parliament or a family impose a rigid Rule thai denies a person the company of a chosen mate if an institution cannot Bend to accommodate the human needs of human beings they conclude it d