OLD WOUNDS HEALED
THEIR MAJESTIES VISITING MOUNT VERNON WREATH FOR WASHINGTON’S TOMB. TRIBUTE TO THE UNKNOWN WARRIOR. (Received This Day, 9.45 a.m.) WASHINGTON. June 9. Their Majesties today will show how completely healed are old wounds when, at 1.45 p.m.. they place a wreath on Washington’s Tomb at Mount Vernon. They are to pay a similar tribute to America's Unknown Warrior at 3.25 p.m. Despite over-night rain, a repetition of yesterday’s enervating heat is promised. Their Majesties’ first engagement is that of meeting, at 10 a.m., British resi • dents at the British Embassy. ExService men parading, include Dr. B. S. Hutcheson, an American who won the Victoria Cross when serving with the 75th Canadian Battalion.
Later the King and Queen will visit the Capitol and greet the 96 Senators and 435 members of the House of Representatives in a rotunda directly beneath the great white dome, their Majestices being placed so they will not see the large painting of General Cornwallis surrendering Yorktown to General Washington, an act. which marked the end of the Revolution.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 June 1939, Page 5
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175OLD WOUNDS HEALED Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 June 1939, Page 5
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