SOME AMERICAN HEADLINES

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25346, 20 November 1947, Page 7

SOME AMERICAN HEADLINES

SLANGY TREATMENT OF WEDDING (Special Correspondent N.Z.P.A.) <Rec. 7 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 19. London newspapers are printing samples of the way in which the Royal Wedding is being presented by a section of the American press. American correspondents of London newspapers quote headings such as the following: “Liz, Phil, wait hitching Party?” “Wanted, Palace, by young couple, good ref.” “All London Tizzy over Lilibet’s' Trousseau”; and Tweeds Okay at Liz’s hitching.” At a big American dinner, one Woman shouted to Sir Hartley Shawcross, the British Attorney-General, who was the guest of the evening, ‘When's Lilibet coming over here?” “ir Hartley Shawcross replied: “Who’s this Lilibet?” There have been letters in American papers suggesting that Americans should refuse Marshall Plan aid to Britain unless the Duchess of Windsor receives an invitation to the wedding. Correspondents emphasise that the tamiliarity with which the names and Private affairs of the British Royal family are treated by some American headline writers are “merely typical some aspects of American journalism a nd do not indicate intentional rudeness.”

Sydney and Beatrice Webb to Lie ® Abbey.—The Dean and Chapter of Westminster Abbey have granted perhussion for the reinterment of the of Lord and Lady Passfield in hie Abbey. The decision to grant this National honour to Lord and Lady £assfield followed a suggestion by Mr Bernard Shaw, who wrote to Mr Attlee and Sir Stafford Cripps about it. The “Daily Herald’s” colonist says that the names used on ‘he memorial tablet in the Abbey will P 6 Sydney and Beatrice Webb, not Lord and Lady Passfield. —London, November 18. Arrests in Hungary.—The Hungarian hews agency reports that State securhy police have arrested five members h* the Independence Party at Szegfed, where the local headquarters are said ® be a “centre of false news and propaganda.” The agency adds that one ,° A those arrested has confessed to •aunching' propaganda.—Budapest, November 19.