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...Room of the White House, of trade treaties with Great Britain and Canada, came to pass last week (see p. 53). To the Nation's First Hostess was left the first official announcement of another major international event. At her press conference Mrs. Roosevelt made known that George VI & Queen Elizabeth, after making a royal tour through Canada, will spend three days in June at the White House, one in New York City at the World's Fair. King George will have the northeast pink bedroom suite which Anna Roosevelt Dall Boettiger used to occupy. Queen Elizabeth will...
will also endeavor to make what contribution they can to the urgent need of facilitating emigration from Germany." Meanwhile, almost unnoticed during the week, the Anglo-Italian Treaty of last April was brought into effect and King-Emperor George VI with his own hand signed the credentials of British Ambassador Lord Perth to Italy's now-recognized King-Emperor Vittorio Emanuele...
...Raising his thin arms over his head he exclaims: "Oh God, I'm bored!" His Canadian birth has not prevented Lord Beaverbrook from conforming to the Old World type of the powerful man with the courage of his caprice. His newspapers are not strictly newspapers. Morning after George VI was crowned, the Express played the story on page one but the banner headline went to Dick Merrill's transatlantic flight...
...Majesty King George VI last week opened a new session of Parliament. In his Speech from the Throne in the House of Lords, His Majesty announced, among other things, that he and Queen Elizabeth were "happy to accept" the invitation of President Roosevelt to visit the U. S. during their scheduled trip to Canada next spring...
...King George II of Greece, who has been staying in London for some days in a private capacity, King George VI was graciously pleased to confer membership in Britain's oldest chivalric order, the Knights of the Most Noble Order of the Garter. Meanwhile another royal visitor. King Carol II of Rumania, accompanied by his 17-year-old son. Crown Prince Mihai, was scheduled to arrive this week in London for a four-day State visit. Following this the royal guests may spend another week on their own in England and Scotland...