Evening star., 1924-08-31

attache in London during the war. He
also helped to entertai in the Prince
OF Wales on his last visit to this
country.
His EXcellency The British Ambas-
sador and Lady Isabella Howard at
the same time will be guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Winthrop at Eastw ood. Mrs
Oscar y. SolDert will also he there
from the end OF August until the
prince leaves.
The democratic spirit Of the Prince
of Wales is attested by his associates
When he was here before. he had Off
cially attached to his suite Capt John
II. Potter, who is welcomed in the
innermost circles Of Philadelphia's
social realm. and who is now known
as the man who picked the princes
dancing partners"
Maj. Oscar y. Solbert Corps of En-
gineers. who has been detailed by the
Secretary of War at the request of
the President as honorary aide-de-
camp to His Royal Hishness the
Prince OF Wales. during his visit in
the United States and who had charge
or making UP the program for the
prince-is former neWsboy. He has
held so many important positions
since that il seems a long time ago
although it is only about % years
Maj. Solbert lived in Worcester
Mass. when appointed to West Point
by Representative lockwood Hoar
after he had graduated from the Wor-
cester High School in 1904 He was
an honor graduate from West Point
and on that account detailed as lieu
tenant in the Corps of Engineers. He
served with Gen. Goethals on the
Panama Canal. and later on the Mis-
sissippi and Ohio Rivers and in Texas.
He was instructor at West Point in
engineering and the art of war. and
for short time stationed al Camp
Sheridan training camp. Then he
ment abroad and served the intelli-
gence service both in neutral coun-
tries and in France. At the end of
the war he went to Russia on mis-
sion for the Versailles conference to
interview Gen. Won Der Goltz in Lat
via. He was attached to the Yer
sailles conference, in Paris, for
time, and then sent to London as
military attache, where he soon came
into high favor with the Prince of
Wales. who frequently sought his
comradeship.
Along last April and May. Maj Sol
bert discussed with the prince this
then proposed visit to the United
States. Before leaving England Maj.
Solbert was asked by the prince to
make the American arrangements for
national polo games. This was done
during June and July. when the Bur-
den home was selected for the
princes visit, and other tentative ar
rangements We're made.
Maj. Soldert makes this state
ment: 1.-The program for the entire
visit is already filled beyond it's ca
pacity with sports, polo, golf, recrea-
ton, informal lunches and dinners
with the British and American polo
players and one or two parties, such
as the Piping Rock Club dinner on
September for the prince and the
British polo team, and the dinner and
reception to be given by Clarence
Mackay on the evening of the first
game. The program has been filled
in the manner and with such recrea
tions and parties as the prince him
self desired"
Those who are eScorting the prince
feel sure that the American people
will understand and appreciate the
kind of a visit that the prince is
forced to make at this particular
time. The Prince of Wales is ex-
tremely desirous, and has so stated
his intention. in the not far future
to make an extended tour of the
United States, as he wants to learn
much about this country and to make
personal friends of it's people. Since
his first visit to this country the
prince has been fascinated by the
United States and it's people.
x X X
THE title prince of Wales was
L first assumed by The Black
Prince who was also an Edward,
and who was a great war hero. One
Of the recent American ambassadors
to the Court of St. James, in speaking
Of the present Edward. called him
'the white prince" saying that he
stood for everything that, in common
parlance. "a white man" stands for
in the United States. He is actuated
by spirit to meet you man to man
and is democratic in the extreme.
Behind his recreational trips to this
country is the thought that as future
sovereign of a great nation he will
be better fitted to rule and to treat
fairly with the United States. He is
even now trying to encourage a sys-
tenn Of Exchange of students between
great universities, like Cambridge
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