WASHINGTON PLANS
AMBASSADOR TALKS TO PRESS ( KING TO MAKE ONLY ONE SPEECH. BATTERY OF QUESTIONS. (Received This Day. 9.55 a.m.) WASHINGTON. May 18. The British Ambassador (Sir Ronald Lindsay) received the Press, at his own request, regarding the Royal visit. He stated that their Majesties were coming to the United States to improve the ties of friendship between the two countries.
“There is no more .political purpose than that in it,” he said. The King would make one speech in the United States, consisting merely of a few remarks, in proposing the health of the President at a White House State dinner.
Numerous women reporters present complained that only a few of them had been invited to the'Embassy garden party. Sir Ronald said: “The garden party is just like Heaven. You know some are taken and some are not.”
One girl asked how the King was going to meet average Americans if
the official schedule were adhered to. “Average Americans.” mused Sir Ronald, “there are an awful lot of them, you know.” He declined to rule whether women should curtsey to the Queen, adding: “I think men should conduct themselves as I do' when I meet the President.” A reporter: “How do you act?” Sir Ronald: “I behave in a suitable and respectful manner and certainly make him a bow, but if it comes from the waist or not, I don’t know.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 May 1939, Page 5
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