Signs are not wanting that King Edward ig. relaxing much of the formality that has always surround the Court.
Hig Majesty has made it known that} fa frock coat is no longer necessary Jat formal functions when uniform is not worn, but a morning coat is per-
There was a touch of informality In the King's visit to the British In-Jdustries Fair when he wore a bowler, which he carried most of the tine.
There will be no formality when hho visits Glasgow next week to in-Jspect the Queen Mary. He will travel in a coach attached to the ordinary night train to Scotland.
Pedestrians were pleasantly "surprised to see the King walking in {the street the other evening, when His Majesty proceeded on foot from the Palace to Buckingham Gate to aliend a meeting of Duchy of Com-wall. workin Buckingham Palace is soon installing @ squash court and a. swimming bath to enable the King to indulge In exercise on which he has always been $0 Keen.
Meanwhile, arrangements for his coronation are proceeding apace, It understood that several dates Tune, 1037, have been. suggested cuter London, Mar. 1.
Herr" Adolf Hitler, the Relehsfuehrer, has approved the beginning of negoilations in London for the conclusion of a qualitative naval agreement between Britain and Germany fo supplement the existing quantity five naval treaty between the two nations.
Instructions to this effect have been received at.the German Embassy in London, They are in reply so a suggestion made by Mr. Anthony Eden, the Foreign Secretary, to the German Ambassador, Dr. Leopold von Hoesch, that Ifa naval treaty were successfully concluded at the London Naval Conference, Germany nnd Britain should sign an Identical instrument, mutatls mutandis, bilaterally, This procedure, rst suggested by the French, is "designed to meet French objections to signing a general twenty including Germany and thereby condoning a breach of the Versailles Treaty.
The only difference between this procedure and a general treaty cluding Germany ix that under the bilateral scheme, Germany would communicate her building programme only to Britain and receive from Britain only information about the British programme and not the programmes of other Powers.—Reuter. rock between shifting sands, "and It should be our prime purpose' to make that rock as strong and stable as we could." That was the supreme, and possibly the only, justifeation for a Feconsideration of British armaments.
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