QUEEN ADMIRED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 June 1939, Page 5

QUEEN ADMIRED

MRS ROOSEVELT’S PRAISE HIS MAJESTY AND PRESIDENT ‘CONFER. PRIVATE TALK ON WORLD AFFAIRS. (Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.) WASHINGTON, June 9. “It is unusual to find in one so young such deep understanding and sympathy” Mrs. Roosevelt told newspaper women at her weekly Press conference, at which she paid the Queen one of the warmest tributes she has ever paid. She said she was deeply impressed by the, interest of both the King and Queen in humanity and their capacity for pertinent questioning. “Her Majesty,” Mrs. Roosevelt observed, “seems to be particularly interested in social conditions. She seems to have taken a keen sense of the difficulties under which many people live and work.” Asked how the Queen could learn much about American social conditions in so short a visit. Mrs. Roosevelt said: "The Queen has a very great gift for asking questions; so has the King.” Mrs. Roosevelt later presented journalists to both the King and Queen. For an hour during the early hours of this morning, the King and President Roosevelt discussed the international situation, “in general terms,” to quote the President. Details were not revealed, beyond the fact that the King and President retired to the study for a chat after the State banquet.