FRENCH VISITORS
GALAXY OF FUNCTIONS.
LORD HALIFAX’S BANQUET
WESTMINSTER RECEPTION
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—copyright.)
(Britisli Official Wireless.) Received March 24, 11. u? a.m RLiO BY, M arch 24.
TIIO visit, of the French President, M. Lebrun, and xVLudame Lebrun, ends to-morrow.
To-night President and Madame .Lebrun, together with Their Majesties, Queen Mary, and other members of the Royal Family, leading Ministers of State and Ambassadors and Ministers at the Court of St. James, attended a banquet given at the Foreign Office by Lord and Lady Halifax.
A Press Association cable says that the House of Lords and the House of Commons uiis morning gave a reception to President aiid Madame Lebrun at a brilliant ceremony at Westminster Hall, after which the visitors inspected the Houses of Parliament. President Lebrun placed a wreath on the Unknown Warrior’s Tomb at the Abbey before leaving for Windsor to lunch with Their Majesties.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 97, 24 March 1939, Page 7
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