The arrival in Washington of Their Majesties the King and Queen has evoked a response which correspondents, in describing it, almost flounder in superlatives. Six hundred thousand People lined the streets on the drive of Their Majesties and President and Mrs. Roosevelt to the White House, and there was tumultuous cheering as the people of the capital of the United States welcomed the royal visitors who, on every hand, received that warm welcome and hospitality so characteristic of the American people. In fact, it is reported that veteran observers of state functions in the capital declare that the reception to the King and Queen yas unprecedented and for this signal mark of avoir to their sovereigns the British people extend "their heartfelt thanks to the American people. During the brief stay in the United States the King and Queen have a busy programmes but however busy and crowded this period may be it includes a stay with President and Mrs. Roosevelt at their residence at Hyde Park when, from an exhausting tiring official routine, they will be able to enjoy the simple and informal hospitality of an American home presided over by the gracious and charming Mrs. Roosevelt. America and England have done themselves a slight injustice in the past through the amused tolerance which swings between crowns and silk hats, overlooking, but not minimizing, the fact that pageantry which is a symbol to one is not necessarily a subordination of the human element. In this connection, even to the extent of a "hot dog" picnic, contrasting so vividly with the formality of state levees and Euckingham Palace garden parties, that reverence and spiritual adornment with which the American clothes his idea of home as the temple of his highest characteristics is being demonstrated, And the human and gracious qualities which endear the British sovereigns to their people are equally being appreciated by the American people, who are taking them to their hearts in a manner which will give pleasure to every British household which likes to regard them in the same way. As a tribute to Anglo-American relations based on attributes of two nations which have more in common than any others, it is dignifying and heartening augury of the future.
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