OLD WOUNDS HEALED

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 10 June 1939, Page 9

OLD WOUNDS HEALED

WREATH ON WASHINGTON’S TOMB VISIT TO THE CAPITAL ‘Received 10th June, 9.45 a.m.) WASHINGTON, 9th June. Their Majesties to-day will show how completely healed are old wounds when at 1.45 p.m. they will place a wreath on Washington’s Tomb at Mount Vernon., They will also place a similar tribute on the tomb of America’s Unknown Warri r at 3.25. Despite raii\ overnight a repetition of yesterday’s enervating heat is promised. Their Majesties’ first engagement will be meeting at 10 a.m. British residents at the British Embassy. Ex-servicemen parading will include Dr. B. S. Hutcheson, an American who won the Victoria Cross while serving with the 75th Canadian Battalion. They later visit the Capitol to greet ninety-six Senators and 435 members of the House of Representatives in the rotunda directly beneath the great white dome, Their Majesties being placed so that they will not see the large painting of Cornwallis surrendnig Yorktown to Washington, an act which marked the end of the revolution.