Evening star., 1927-12-04
CITY AGAIN HOST TO NOBILITY
WITH VISIT OF CANADIAN CHIEF
Governor General and Party
Will Be Welcomed Here
Tuesday.
Distinguished Guest Will See
President and Receive Re-
turn Call at legation.

turn Call al Legdtl0h.
Washington once again will be
the host TO visiting nobility. with tn"
arrival on Tuesday of the Governor
| General of Canada and Viscountess
! Willingdon, marking the first time
that the representative OF the Do
minion of British monarch has
officially visited the American cap.
ital Britain's tall, lean. white
haired colonial soldier, who repre-
sents the House of Windsor in the
Dominion, will be accorded signal
honor from President Coolidge. Sec
retary Kellogg and other high off,
cials, starting from the time he sets
foot in Washington at II o'clock
Tuesday morning and lasting through
his visit here. which will terminate
with his departure at 10 O'Clock
Friday morning.
Accompanied by a distinguished
party, the vice regal visitor will be
escorted to the presidential suite at
the Union Station through double
line of U. s. Marines, while the Army
band plays God Save the King"
Canada's national anthem, and that
of the United States. A war strength
troop of Cavalry from Fort Myer will
escort the visitors to the Canadian
legation, 1746 Massachusetts, avenue.
where their eXcellencies will stay
during their Washington sojourn
Reception Committee.
The Canadian Minister to the
United States and Mrs. Vincent Mas
sey, the United States Minister to
Canada. William Phillips; +. c. Mie-
vile, secretary TO the governor gem
eral: Mrs. r. s. Osborne, lady-in-
waiting TO viscountess Wilmington
and Capts. J. E. Jervis and Niscount
Hardinge. aides de camp, will be in
the governor generals party, Al
the station they will be RECEIVED
formally by the Secretary of State
and Mrs. kellogg, the Assistant Sec
retary of state and Mrs. Castle. Mrs.
William Phillips, members of the
staff of the Canadian legation, the
chief of naval operations, Admiral
Charles F.. Hughes: the chief of
staff of the Army, Maj. Gen. Charles
p. Summerall: the commandant of
the Marine Corps, Maj. Gen. j. A.
Lejeune; the general commanding
the district, Brig. Gen. T. @. Dom
aldson; the chief of the Western
European Division of the State De-
partment, Theodore Mariner; the
Presidents military aide, the Pres
ident's naval aide. the American
naval aide to ting governor general,
Capt. Poteet. and the American mil
itary aide TO the governor general,
Col. Margetts.
Tuesday afternoon, at 4:30 O'Clock,
the governor general and the Wis
countess will be received at the White
House by the President and Mrs.
Coolidge. Halt an hour later, the
Chief Executive and the First Lady
of the Land will call upon the dis,
tinguished visitors at the Canadian
Legation and at o'clock they will
be entertained at dinner at the White
House.
Wednesday evening the Canadian
Minister will give a dinner and re-
ception in honor of the governor gen.
eraI and his party at the Canadian
Legation. The British Ambassador
and Lady Isabella Howard will enter
tain their excellencies at dinner
Thursday evening.
Visit Skaters Precedent.
In coming to Washington the gov
erncr general of Canada will shatter
but those familiar with
Canada say that at a public luncheon
recently he said that some of his
earlier speeches had brought criticism
from the British government on the
ground that he had touched upon
public questions, a thing which no
representative of the King must ever
do. Although he has been in Canada
only a year, Canadians declare he has
already injected new color into the
bits of imperial pageantry in the
Dominion government and new splen'
dors into his post as master OF Gov.
ernment House. Ottawa.
The 61-year-old peer Is a soldier Of
wide experience, a parliamentarian
and a sportsman. His name, stripped
Thomas. At the age of "a he was
elected to Parliament in the Liberal
cause in 1900 and for II years sat in
the House of Commons, serving most
of the time as a junior lord of the
treasury. He was appointed governor
of Bombay in 1913 and through the
trying war years he held that post,
surrendering it in 1919. His heir,
Lieut.. the Hon. Gerald Freeman.
Thomas was killed at Mons in 1914
during the early days Of the World
War. His second son, Hon. lingo
Freeman-Thomas, is living.
The governor general captained
cricket elevens at Eton and Cambridge.
He is from Sussex, which abounds
with county facilies that crowd Who's
Who with terse records of service in
the Guards, the Commons, the Soudan
and Zulu campaigns and other equally
strenuous activities.
Called Splendid Host.
His excellency, who is also first
Baron of Ration, is noted as a splen-
did host, and Canadians point to the
numerous bright parties and array of
guests that have come to Government
House, Ottawa, to prove it. Observers
see in his trip to Washington an effort
to break new ground in the hope, per.
haps, of widening the scope of activity
of the vice regal office.
In Canada his excellency is regard.