WARM WELCOME

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 95, 22 March 1939, Page 9

WARM WELCOME

FRENCH PRESIDENT. CROWDS IN LONDON. SOLIDARITY OF ROWERS. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received ALarcli £2, 9.40 a.m. LONDON, March £l. Thousands oi people cheered the French President (At. Lebrun) and Aladame Lebrun, on their arrival at Dover. They left for London by special train. Their Alajesties welcomed the President and Aladame Lebrun at Victoria station. Thousands cheered along the route to Buckingham Palace. The King wore a Field-Marshal’s uniform and the Queen wore a suit of a new mayflower shade of lilac surmounted by an ostrich feather. The King and President Lehrun, tiie Duke of Gloucester and the Duke of Kent rode in the first carriage, and the Queen, Madame Lebrun and the Duchesses of Gloucester and Kent in the second carriage. The procession to the Palace was escorted by Life Guards, via Whitehall and Pall Mall. President Lebrun constantly acknowledged the crowd’s thunderous cheers. Upon arrival at the Palace, the Princesses were presented to the visitors. Princess Elizabeth, speaking in French, thanked the children of France for sending her dolls. In response to the appeals of the crowd, Their Alajesties, the Princesses, and M. and Madame Lebrun appeared on the Palace balcony for 3-j minutes. An Independent Cable Service message states that M. Lehrun conferred the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour on the Duke of Kent.