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Back in Paris that evening, Queen Elizabeth decided it was about time she and King George insisted on appearing to the clamoring Paris populace at close range. In progress at the Palais d'Orsay was an evening's entertainment by such world favorites as Maurice Chevalier and Yvonne Printemps, staged for the King and Queen and about 120 guests. The party could be seen through the brightly lighted windows of the Palace. Popular cheers and impatience increased, and Minister of Interior Albert Sarraut squirmed nervously on his chair, several times half rose as if to order the curtains drawn, to shut out vague Danger. After the last star turn, the Queen, then the King were seen expressing themselves earnestly to the President and Mme Lebrun, finally won their point and appeared on the low balcony amid pandemonium which made their last night in Paris a real triumph. Although M. Sarraut almost swooned with anxiety, nobody took a shot at George VI.
Best Guarantee. Next morning, on the station platform, the Lebruns said good-by to their guests in the name of France. Then the royal train, followed by the Presidential train, steamed off to what was called the "Australian soil" of the cemetery at Villers-Bretonneux, where 2,500 Australian soldiers lie buried. In dedicating a handsome new Australian Memorial, the King showed himself in better voice than at any time since he took the Throne, the nervous tone of his halting speech having almost vanished, and President Lebrun fervently responded, "It moves me to salute, Your Majesty, your affirmation that 'The friendship of the two nations is the best guarantee of world peace' retains today all its power and force!"
After the ceremony, as the King and Queen drove off to rejoin their train and be whisked to the Channel, then to England, a young Deputy of the French Chamber arose and recited in English to the gathering of French and Australian officials:
The tumult and the shouting dies; " The captains and the kings depart: " Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice, " An humble and a contrite heart."
*"Godd saive aour Grechieuss Kinng, Long laive aour nobeul Kinng, Godd saive ze Kinng."