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Imperious Etiquette. One would suppose that General Baron Byng of Vimy, World War hero and recent Governor General of Canada, would be welcome at any banquet. Yet he was excluded last week from the State Dinner tendered to President Doumergue by Their Majesties...
...excluded as "improperly dressed," because he was wearing only ordinary evening clothes, adorned simply with the orders of the Legion of Honor and the Bath. That was not enough. The invitations, by Royal command, called for the full dress uniform to which Lord Byng is entitled by his rank ?a uniform resplendent with scarlet and gold. . . . Court etiquette makes no exceptions. The baron cooled his heels without, while Lady Byng, "properly dressed," dined...
...Damme Sir! We love you for yourself!"--Viscount Byng to Edward, Prince of Wales...
Last week, Viscount Julian Byng of Vimy, onetime Governor General of Canada (1921-26), presided in London at a banquet attended by Edward of Wales and there loosed what Queen Victoria would have called "a fearful oath...
...Baron and Baroness Byng sailed from Quebec on the Empress of France, the newly appointed Governor General, Freeman Freeman-Thomas, Viscount Willingdon (TIME, June 21), embarked with Lady Willingdon at Southampton on the Empress of Scotland. Meanwhile Mr. King had formed the following Cabinet...