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...meet square-chinned Chief Constable Albert Canning of what is properly called the Criminal Investigation Department. He is its first chief to have risen from the ranks. C. I. D.'s Canning proceeded inconspicuously to Washington to discuss with the Secret Service plans for the safety of George VI & Queen Elizabeth on an itinerary of some 1,500 miles with many ticklish spots...
...year the 61-year-old Sir Ronald has wanted to retire. Early this week the British Government granted his wish, appointed as a successor an equally high-powered statesman, the 57-year-old Marquess of Lothian. He will take his Washington post soon after the visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth to the U. S. in June...
...Ambassador to Britain Joe Kennedy went with Prime Minister Chamberlain to Windsor Castle to discuss with King George VI the advisability of the latter's visiting Canada and the U. S. in June...
Visiting a brewery in Hackney (London outskirts), King George VI was presented with a bottle of beer that had been brewed by his brother. Edward, Prince of Wales, in 1932. Flustered, the King handed the bottle to an equerry, hedged: "I can't very well carry the bottle around...
...Anglo-Saxon diplomatic piety. French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet did, however, use the State visit last week of President and Mme Albert Lebrun ("Mr. and Mrs. Brown" to Londoners) as a fit occasion to talk matters over with British statesmen. M. le President and His Majesty King George VI also toasted each other's peoples heartily at a banquet at Buckingham Palace...