PRINCESS MARGARET STEALS HEADLINES FROM THE “BIG FOUR”

Wanganui Chronicle, 30 May 1949, Page 5

PRINCESS MARGARET STEALS HEADLINES FROM THE “BIG FOUR”

PARIS, May 29 (Recd. 6 pm).— Princess Margaret dodged spectators, reporters and cameramen who jostled and elbowed along the platforom tc the carriage door from which she wa.-' expected to alight when she arrived in Paris from Lausanne. She suddenly changed her mind, turned back along the corridor and left the train at the other end of the carriage. A small army of policemen formed a wedge from the platform to a small waiting room through which Princess Margaret passed to the back courtyard where her car was waiting. A few people saw her arrive at the British Embassy, where she will stay.

Prine i Margaret’s arrived pushed the “Big Four” meeting into the background in Paris evening papers. The Communist “Cesori” said: ‘Thousands of people, shop girls and suburban workers, tried to catch a glimpse of the Princess at the station, but were held off by a pitiless police force.”

Princess Margaret was entertained at lunch by Madame Vincent Auriol, wife of the French President. There were 30 guests, including members of the French Government. The Pdincess met 100 guests from all Commonwealth Embassies and legations in Paris, and from French Ministers, at a cocktail party at the Canadian Embassy in the evening. The Swiss oGvernmeit took no risks yesterday when Princess Margaret went for an hour’s cruise on Lake Geneva in a heavily armoured Swiss Army launch. There were armed military guards and four plain-clothes detectives on board the launch. It was followed by another launch containing uniformed police and three swimming champions.

The Princess had spent the night with Queen Victoria Eugene, of Spair„ at a lakeside villa in Lausanne. Swiss newspapers have criticised security measures which kept the Princess from the admiration of the Press, and public. The “Tribune de Lausanne” and the “azette de Lausanne” said she looked sad. “The “Tribune” said: “IT you reflect that from Fieura to Veytaux she saw practically nothing of Switzerland but the profile of Andre Bossier (chief of the Swiss protocol) and the broad back of our motor cycle police, you" must admit she had no reason to be madly gay.”