DEEP ATTACHMENT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19896, 25 March 1939, Page 6

DEEP ATTACHMENT

BRITAIN AND FRANCE MUTUAL FEELINGS KING A XI) PRESIDENT MESSAGES EXCHANGED (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Mar. 25, 12,30 p.m.) LONDON, Mar. 24. On their departure from London, the President of France, M. Lebrun and Madame Lebrun were accompanied- to Victoria Station by the King and Queen and the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret. Crowds at the station cheered. The Prime Minister, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, the Foreign Secretary, Viscount Halifax, the British Ambassador to France, Sir Eric Phipps and the French Ambassador to Britain, M. Corbin were present. The farewell was friendly and informal. Before leaving M. Lebrun presented an equestrian statue of George V to the King and u crystal vase to the Queen The King and M. Lebrun exchanged telegrams on the conclusion o£ the State visit

After expressing thanks for the welcome he had received M. Lebrun said: "The reception which the British people have given to the President of the Republic will be interpreted by the French people as new and unforgettable testimony of the solidarity which units our two nations."

The King, in his reply, said: "The Queen and I thank you most heartily for the very kind terms of your message on leaving the shores of the United Kingdom. Your visit, in company with Madame Lebrun, has given the utmost pleasure, not only to us personally, but to the peoples of the whole Empire. The welcome accorded you served to show once more our deep attachment to the great nation of which you, M. Lebrun, as President, are the distinguished head." A message from Paris reports the ai-rival there at 4.22 p.m. of M. Lebrun and Madame Lebrun.