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...stalwart Naval Aide William Watson, emerged from the front door of the White House, an infallible sign that an international potentate is about to arrive. Cantering up the steps soon came a slender young couple smiling gaily at the beaming President. Premier & Mme Paul van Zeeland of Belgium were honored and delighted to meet Franklin Roosevelt. A few minutes later they were all three motoring together to the waterfront to board the Potomac and cruise down to Mount Vernon...
...negotiate a reciprocal trade treaty, for that was all signed, sealed and put into effect two years ago. Still he found enough to talk about with the President under the awning on the deck of the Potomac (except for a brief interval while he and Mme van Zeeland went ashore for a Mount Vernon wreath-laying) to talk all day. enough to keep him up to the small hours of the morning still talking to the President after a state dinner that night. And next morning when Secretary Hull returned from receiving a degree at Yale, lively M. van Zeeland...
Belgium's Premier Paul van Zeeland may be in the U. S. for purposes of utmost international importance (TIME, June 14), but the ostensible reason for his trip was to receive this week from Princeton University, in whose graduate school he studied 17 years ago, an honorary LL.D. On the platform the premier will meet again his good and potent friend, U. S. Ambassador-at-Large Norman Hezekiah Davis, there for the same purpose. Recalling two notable Harvard LL.D.'s-the Marquis de Lafayette (1784) and Prince Henry of Prussia (1902)-Princeton's van Zeeland provided...
...Commencement Day exercises at Princeton will be broadcast tomorrow from 12 to 12:45 o'clock in the afternoon. President Dodds will be heard conferring honorary degrees upon the distinguished recipients, among whom will be Dr. Paul Van Zeeland...
...Confidentially Mr. van Zeeland's visit to Princeton is just educational. Yes, that's the very word, 'educational...