National Affairs: His Majesty's Press Agent

Lady Lindsay has dealt as coldly and impersonally with Washington reporters as she would with the Embassy ice man.—Washington Dispatch to the New York Post.

If any lady in your household is ever compelled to hold a press conference, entreat her not to condescend to newspaper women.—Columnist Helen Essary in the Washington Times-Herald (in an open letter "to the next British Ambassador")

THE KING NEEDS A PRESS AGENT.—Editorial in the New York Daily News.

His "Ameddican"-born wife having consistently put her foot in her mouth* (TIME, May 22), the moose-tall British Ambassador to the U....

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