The King wore the glittering gold attire of an Admiral and the President was dressed in formal morning attire. Both the Queen and Mrs. Roosevelt were dressed in blue wool dresses, the mutual gift of British and American wool growers.
The King and Queen, Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt, and members of the Cabinet and their wives emerged at 1211 pin. onto the vast station plaza where saluting troops presented arms as 600,000 Americans cheered wildly.
The U.S. Marine Band played the "Star Spangled Banner" and "God Save The King." While these selections were being played, the King raised his hand in salute and Pre: dent Roosevelt placed his top hat over his heart. The group around the King was immobile during the playing of the British and American national anthems and-the 21 guns salute which followed.
The party then slowly drove to the White House by motor car accompanied by the roars of the huge crowds, banked along the streets and hanging from windows close by where space had been sold at, U.S.$15
President Roosevelt's toast carried broader implications than the King's, but the British Monarch said: "I hope our great nations may ever in ihe future walk together on the path of friendship in a world of peace."
President Roosevelt said he was persuaded that "the greatest single contribution our two countries have been enabled to make to civilization and the welfare of peoples throughout the world is the example we have jointly set in conducting the relations between our two countries,"
"It is because each nation is lacking in fear of the other," the President said. "We have not fortified the borders between us, and it is because neither of us fears aggression from the other that we have mot entered into an armaments race against each other."
President Roosevelt's emphasis on the peaceful and friendly settlement of the Canton and Enderbury islands sovereignty problem stirred speculation as to whether the stage may be set for Anglo-American consultation and discussions of other Pacific problems in which the United States and Britain are both vitally interested,
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