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FRENCH PRESIDENT. SCENES AT STATION. FRIENDLY FAREWELL. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received March 25, 8 .5 a.m. LONDON, March 24. Their Majesties the King and Queen and Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose accompanied President and Madame Lebrun from the Palace to Victoria Station, where crowds cheered them. The Prime Minister (Mr Neville Chamberlain), Lord Halifax (Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs), Sir Eric Phipps (British Envoy in Paris), and M. Corbin (French Ambassador to Britain), were present at the farewell, which was friendly and informal. Before leaving, President Lebrun presented an equestrian statue of King George V. to the King aiul a crystal vase to the Queen. A Paris report states that President ami Madame Lebrun arrived at 4.22 p.m.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 98, 25 March 1939, Page 9
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