PROBLEM IN U.S.A.

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 89, 12 October 1938, Page 9

PROBLEM IN U.S.A.

GREETING TO THE QUEEN

SHOULD MRS. ROOSEVELT

CURTSY?

WASHINGTON, October 11.

•If their Majesties visit the White House, shouldv Mrs. Roosevelt curtsy to them?" However fiflimsy may be the foundation of the report of their impending visit, this is the question of the hour for society here.

Interrogated at a Press conference, Mrs. Roosevelt said that she knew nothing about a proposed visit and nothing regarding the etiquette of entertaining Royalty, "i guess I will do whatever the Protdcol Division of the State Department instructs me," she said. The protocol experts, after this* declined to rule on the question until it was officially presented, but the Washington correspondent of the "New York Herald-Tribune" reported that the consensus of opinion was that to. use the customary American forms of social greeting would be the thing to do instead of curtsying.

The fact that Madame Lebrun, wife of the French President, fcurtsied to their Majesties last summer in Paris is not regarded as establishing a precedent, most experts holding that the wife of the President of the United States is of equal rank to the heads of other Governments.