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...rode through cheering crowds from Heston aerodrome to No. 10 Downing Street. To the crowd gathered before his door in Downing Street he proclaimed: "For the second time in our history a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honor." King George VI welcomed him at Buckingham Palace; Britons stood in the rain cheering him as he declared, "I believe it is peace for our time...
Last week when Britain's Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden returned from Geneva, no crowd milled in front of No. 10 Downing Street. Before going off to a welcome at Buckingham Palace, Anthony Eden met the press, and there was an unhappy echo of history in what he said. The Geneva Conference had averted the danger of a third world war. "I have little doubt," he added, "that the settlement will be beneficial for the outlook of peace in the world...
...London, Princess Margaret, glittering in a diamond necklace and tiara, beamed warmly at the cheering crowd as her coach rolled up to Buckingham Palace, where Britain's royalty wined and dined Sweden's King Gustav VI and Queen Louise, who were making the first state visit of Swedish monarchs to England in 46 years. On her white tulle gown Margaret wore a miniature portrait of another handsome lady, her sister Queen Elizabeth...
Some future programs: Queen Elizabeth's review of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve in London, with a flypast of 100 planes down the Mall toward Buckingham Palace; the third round of Davis Cup matches from Paris; Queen Juliana of The Netherlands at a garden party; the world-championship soccer game between France and Yugoslavia; Siena's historic Palio horse race...
...Ride to Buckingham. Every whistle in London Harbor let loose a blast as she stepped ashore to the roar of a 41-gun salute, to be greeted by members of her own family and by government officials headed by beaming Sir Winston Churchill, who bowed to the Queen and her husband and shook hands gravely with the five-year-old Duke of Cornwall. It was the gallant old Prime Minister's second official greeting. By special invitation he had spent the previous night on the royal yacht, and scurried home in the morning to change from his Trinity House...