Back Home The gratifying reception which was given Their Majesties on their return to London from their tour of Canada and the visit to the United States, was not only a demonstration of the loyalty which they have willingly been tendered by their subjects, but is also to be taken as a definite marke of public approval of the manner in which they carried out a very arduous and dim cult function. The demand hich was mace upon their. time from. the moment they set foot in Canada to the moment when they left it must have been enormous and on occasion cables remarked that at times the King looked tired. Despite that there can~ not be the slightest doubt that the tour was a complete success, it took the personality of the two monarchs to one of the most important Dominions in the Commonwealth, and established a contact which far outweighs anything that newspaper propaganda could possibly do, and enabled them to be seen by hundreds of thousands of. American citizens who awaited their" coming with a very great amount ccurlosity. Much naturally depended upon the manner in which Their Majesties impressed themselves upon the people of the United States. Mishandling of the situation instead of bringing about that greater understanding for which mostly everyone on both sides of the Atlantic hoped might have created an impres~ sion likely to have had precisely the opposite effect, Fortunately the charm of the Royal couple and their readiness to come into contact with as many people as possible, and that tact which is inherent in them surmounted all dit-Aieulties and made their tour something in the nature of a triumphal progress. Of their reception in the United States Mr. Chamberlain has spoken in most felicitous terms with which there cannot be anything but the completes can speak for the when Tsay. that we ha moved by the warmth of for this country Seen profoundly th ip, which Peoples of the United States andthe United Kingdom.
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