Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Visiting Year. Historically, this visit climaxed an unparalleled era of international visiting and friend-making. With the war clouds hanging over Europe, there was no telling when friendly neighbors' roofs would be needed. Within two years, four out of six Balkan rulers had visited London or Berlin. Mussolini had visited Berlin, and Hitler repaid the compliment. King George & Queen Elizabeth had been to Paris, and in turn had received President Lebrun in London. To make the utmost of their trip to the U. S.,* the King had at his elbow Secretary Alan Frederick Lascelles, who wrote his speeches...
...people, were intangible but evident. Canada had been given a shot of Empire enthusiasm which would be a long time wearing off. The U. S. and Britain had put on a show of good neighborliness that had dominated the world's news for a week. While the London Times augustly observed that "there was nothing political in the visit," the liberal News Chronicle probably reflected European reactions more accurately when it predicted: "The result will be not only to make a marked difference in Anglo-American relations, but also to affect all political calculations in Europe...
...around the long loop from Quebec to Halifax were struck by the added poise and self-confidence that George drew from the ordeal. Filled with new pride in their King & Queen, Britons were preparing to give them a monster welcome-with millions lining the railroad right-of-way to London -calculated to top anything the Yankees did for their sovereigns...
...England, after two weeks of pursuit by British newspapermen, the Lindberghs found peace. They went freely to the homes of friends, found they could go to London for dinner and the theatre without being mobbed. In Paris, where they moved after living for a time at Illiec, a secluded Breton isle, life was just as calm. At dinner in the Crillon, at the theatre, no one except an occasional American tourist gawked at them. There were no autograph hunters...
Last year when that peace was broken, Lindbergh again blamed the U. S. press. After the Munich agreement, a radical mimeograph published in London the charge that a semiofficial report made by Lindbergh at a banquet of the Cliveden Set influenced Britain's decision to assent to the CzechoSlovak grab. The story got more attention in the U. S. than in Europe. Liberals denounced...