The Archive · 1938

British Statesmen Leave for Paris

Tremendous Seas Rolling In Channel; Incident in French Chamber

London, Nov. 23.

Mr. Neville Chamberlain, the Prime Minister, Mrs. Chamberlain, Viscount Halifax, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Viscountess Halifax, Sir Alexander Cadogan, Deputy Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and other officials of the Foreign Office left Victoria station for Paris today.

The special train, for Portsmouth, bearing the body of Queen Maud of Norway, had left the station an hour before, following simple last rites at Marlborough House chapel, St James's Place A north-westerly gale was blowing in the Straits of Dover and tremendous seas were rolling in the Channel along the south-east coast —Reuter.

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