"Paris today is giving Their Britannic Majesties the greatest reception ever tendered a living person anywhere!" cabled last week Chicago Daily News Veteran Edgar Ansel Mowrer. The democracies, following the lead of Hitler's visit to Rome, were themselves putting on a whopping big show of friendship. At the last minute the $1,000,000 official decoration of Paris for the State visit was multiplied by householders, shopkeepers who hung out flags, bunting, streamers and pictures of Their Majesties. Good-natured French throngs surged on the sidewalks, twisting their tongues in preparation for singing God Save The King. They were aided by phonetic spellings in the words published by Paris papers.*
Weighty Newspundit Walter Lippmann, in Paris to hail Democracy's new potency in Europe, resulting from recent Anglo-French rearmament and collaboration, cabled: "The period of Franco-British impotence under the menace of a knockout blow came to an end in April of this year. The end was marked by the creation of what is in all but name an alliance. This alliance was tested in the Czechoslovak crisis of May 21 and survived its first severe practical test."
Koh-i-Nur. Crown jewels seldom travel, but King George and Queen Elizabeth, responding to the costly hospitality of their French hosts, brought along $7,500,000 in jewels from the Tower of London, including the 106-carat Koh-i-Nur diamond for Her Majesty to wear at the Paris Opera. Two Scotland Yardmen were deemed enough to guard the Crown jewels, plus 50 blue trunks and pieces of luggage, each lettered in gold, THE KING. Their Majesties left the channel port of Boulogne-sur-Mer by special train for Paris over a cleared track guarded by 50,000 French troops.