MRS ROOSEVELT’S TRIBUTE
“DEEP UNDERSTANDING AND SYMPATHY” INTEREST IN SOCIAL CONDITIONS (Received 10th June, 9.50 a.m.) WASHINGTON, 9th June. "It is unusual to find in one so young such deep understanding and sympathy,” Mrs Roosevelt told newspaperwomen at her weekly Press conference, at which she paid the Queen one of the warmest tributes she has ever paid. She said she was deeply impressed by both the King and Queen’s interest in humanity and their capacity for pertinent questioning. "Her Majesty seems to bv. particularly interested in social conditions. She seems to have a keen sense of the difficulties under which many people live and work.”
Asked how the Queen could learn much about American social conditions in so short a visit Mrs Roosevelt said: “The Queen has a very great gift for asking questions; so has the King.” Mrs Roosevelt later presented
journalists to both the King and Queen. For an hour during the early hours this morning the King and the President discussed the international situation “in general terms,” to quote the President. Details were not revealed beyond the fact that the King and the President retired to the study for a chat after the State *banquet.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 10 June 1939, Page 9
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