Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-04
WASHINGTON AFFAIRS
lSpeciaI to The BuIIetinl.

WaShlngLons D. C.. NOV. 3.-l'Qe clLy is still gay with stars and stripes intermingled with the Belgium flags of red, yellow and black. for the com ing of the King and Queen of Belgium reused all Washington to a pitch of | enthusiasm. In no other city of the
 country has the war, and it's con-
 sequent war work, been so much to
 the front asJ here. The whole city has
 been in intimate touch with details of 1 the war from the moment the United l States enered into it, so little Belgium, | and it's tragic effort to stem the tide , 1 of blood has been in it's foremost | l thought more keenly than elsewhere. l The declaration of war by congress: | | the framing and putting into effect | of the first man to be drafted were the draft law; the drawing of the name things we saw and heard not merely things we read about. One hundred thousand war workers came to the city in one year to take up the added work of government departments. The I president, and his cabinet, Pershtng 1 and March are familiar figures here; until the arnistice was signed Wash ington streets were filled with soldiers and sailors in our own khaki and blue, and in the uniforms of all the allied nations. Here came Gen. Joffre and
 the French mission, Balfour and the English mission, closely followed by
 similar missions from other allied na-
 tions. Here the peace treaty and lea que of nations is being officially dis
 cussed and here it will be either ratif-
 ed or rejected; Here is the Red Cross headquarters, and great military hos
 pital where thousands of wounded sol
 diers are still under treatment and whose armelSs, leglesS and blind patti
 ents are seen daily on the streets in
 the uniform of the United States army.
 So when the King and Queen reached
 Washington the whole city rose to welcome them with perhaps closer sympathy and warmer personal regard : than would have been possible else : where.
 New England figured largely in the l reception to the King and Queen.
 Speaker Gillett, Senator Lodge, Con- gressman Rogers of Massachusetts, in
 their official positions of speaker and
 chairman of the two foreign relations
 committees attended all the state
 functions and it was Gillett who well comed the King to the house of rep resentatives. The ladies of their fami- : lies, together with Mrs. Mclean, wife s of Senator Mclean of Connecticut g were included in the receptions given e for the queen, including dinners and a lunCHeOHS Ql Ine IilOSL eldDOTdle IldlufS. , The queen speaks English with great fluency and with scarcely trace of !, foreign accent, but that of the king ] bears many foreign ear marks. Con- = menting on the state dinner given by the l vice president Congressman Rogers told D of number of little intimate happen r ings which throw added light on the
 democratic attitude in which the royal
 guests bore themselves. It was a case , of when in Rome do as the Romans
 do' and so instead of receiving the K guests presented to them by a formal 0 bow both the king and the queen y grasped each guest by the hand in a e good old fashioned cordial American n handshake, much to the astonishment ;. of those who, earlier in the day. had
 seen men and women of the diplomatic :. corps bow low before them and kiss IL the hand of the queen. After dinner = an officer of the king suite said to MT g Rogers ''the only things we Belgians d do not understand about Americans is j. their unsuitable desire for speeches, Ie adding that the king had been called
 upon to speak from the rear end O. ;s trains, at banquets, dinners and al ,' sorts of occasions, not excepting tn, , dinner just concluded. The queer IS showed her appreciation of what Am IS erican children had done for the littl 90 children of Belgium by asking tha $. the kiddies she had seen on the foo 1e of the house during the kings visi in there, should be presented to her in tn ,d speakers room immediately after af wards. These included a dozen 6 oA more children of members of congress '- brought there that they might tell o sn the occasion in later years. She cud K dled the babies, and took the littI pr curly headed youngsters on her la IS, to their great delight The childrel or for whom the queen had especiall ,a asked were those of Congressman Joh e. Tilson of the Third Connecticut dis
 trict, and when Col Tilson brough them to her she took them in her laI al kissed them and talked to them fo ne several minutes. In the meantime Co he Tilson chatted with the young crow nd prince whom he met while in Franc a and Belgium with the military affair Fr committee of the house last spring. he When the king personally receive pn the members of congress who file f. before him. it was noticeable that th an queen remained standing in the pres dents gallery until the reception wa over, which took perhaps 20 minutes lls more. Many persons in other gallerit he sat down again after rising to applau mt the king at the close of his address, bl ri- the queen remaind standing, as
 course did the half dozen ladies wit
 her including Mrs. Marshall and sex
 eral members of the diplomatic corp
 The queen has most charming pel le- sonality and the king who is straigl a as an arrow, tall and good lookin
 was greeted by Speaker Gillet as eTf
 most manly of kings and the mo on kingly of men" while the senators ar ti- representatives who met him at receI
 tions and dinners described him as
 mighty good fellow" And apparent si- both terms fitted him to the dot.
 on The republicans ana democrats WI Ld- oppose the treaty in its present forI
 led by Senator Lodge chairman of u
 foreign relations committee, are reat Ina to fix the time for a final vote, al 'ho urge that it shall be not later ths m November 10th But the adni<iistr A7 tion spokesman, Senator Hitchcoc
 democrat is holding it back. It seen
 to be generally understood that Hitcl are cock is afraid to assume the respons ent bility of permitting the treaty to cor zht to a final vote until the president a
 vises him to do so. The treaty, wi
 the stiff reservations which will b come part of it. is certain to be in bi- lime aeo would not he aooa-t,i,Ia ore him. After him insistent demand tn
 neither the crossing of a "t'' nor t
 dotting of an 'T' should be chang ked just how he will regard the docume .n+ as it comes from the Senate is a ma yet ,oa,,aS hi. att;t',do o a1llo unlesS
 e&- Mr. Hitchcock what course to take, t
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