Evening star., 1938-07-04
Prince Berti| and Party Will
Make Visit to the
White House,.
RECEIVED AT LUNCHEON
AT BRITISH EMBASSY
Legation Also Entertains for
Visitors-Dinner to Be Given
by Robert Woods Bliss.
picture on Page Az


Princess Louise planned to pay 4
o'clock call on President Roosevelt
today. climaxing busy week end
during which the prince delivered
two speeches extending the greetings
Of his country and of his father, the
crown prince, who is i'll in New York.
The White House call will be the
Presidents third meeting with the
Swedish royal party. He greeted
them when they arrived in Whining
ton and received them at his Hyde
Park, N. Y. home.
The royal party was TO lunch at
the British Embassy, while the more
than so distinguished Swedes accom-
panying it were to be guests of the
Swedish Legation, where Prince Ber-
til has promised a press conference
for pm. He and the crown princess
will be guests of honor tonight at
dinner on the estate OF Robert Woods
Bliss, 3l0l R street NV.
Will Visit Annapolis.
Motoring to Annapolis tomorrow.
the prince will inspect the Naval
Academy and return in time to go
with the crown princess to New York
with military escort. He told Sig
frid Edstrom, chairman Of the Swedish
delegation, that his father. the crown
prince. appears to be rapidly recover
ing from his kidney ailment and is
likely to join the royal party We'd
nesday on its trip to Newport, Boston,
Detroit, Chicago and Minneapolis.
At dinner in the Mayfower Hotel
last night Prince Bertil told Secre-
tary of State Hull and other guests
| that unrest in one part of the world
is sure to react in many others. II
there is war in one part. the world in
general cannot avoid being affected
We believe that the ideals OF in
ternational cooperation and the set
| tlement Of disputes without resorting
to arms are ideals which must be kept
alive" he said, calling attention to
| SWedens record of no war in 100 years
since the accession to the throne of
his great great great grandfather.
Charles XIV. He asked Sweden
and the United States to cooperate
within the limits of our possibilities
Crown Princess Louise, who ar
rived in Washington shortly after noon
yesterday, and Prince Bertil were guests
OF honor at the dinner, given by the
State Department and the United
States Delaware Valley Tercentenary
Committee, in recognition of the 800
years since the first Swedish settle
ment
Previously the prince spoke after
services of the Augustana Lutheran
Church. held at IL am. in Hotel 24OO
on Sixteenth street.
Guarded by Police.
Bertil arrived at the church services
guarded by 18 police from new No l3
precinct, and motor cycle escort.
Speaking with the distinctly enun-
ciated English he learned at school in
England. and in loud tones to reach
the crowd stretching beyond the doors
OF the auditorium, he replied to an
address by DR.. P. o. Persell, president
of the 1900 Swedish-American Lu-
theran churches:
When assisting a few days ago at
ceremonies in Old Swedes Church in
Wilmington, the Church of Gloria Del
in Philadelphia and the old temple
In SWedesborough, read on the tomb
stones in the church yards those old
Swedish names, and had very in
tense feeling that those churches rep
resented the heart of the Swedish con-
| frihIItinY, tn ri
ization,' he said
Sitting on a straight backed chair
slightly in front of the body of the
congregation. he heard the pastor, DR..
Arthur O. Helm. conduct the usual
simple Swedish rites. DR.. HELM sang
the salutation and announced the
death of an aged church member.
The parable of the prodigal son was
read by Dr. C. A. Lund, vice president
Of the Lutheran Augustana Synod of
North America. who said the sons sin
was not in living riotously, but in
wasting his substance to do so.
America has sinned in being a
waster, leaving fine forest country
studded with stumps," he contended
Luncheon at legation.
A luncheon at the Swedish Legation
yesterday was attended by the British
Ambassador and Lady Lindsay, Sec
retary and Mrs. Hull, Count Nils
Fersen Gyldenstolpe. Representative
Pehr Holmes. Mrs. Rickard Sander
wife of the Swedish foreign minister
and 1t. Col. William C. Crane and
Comdr Hamilton v. Bryan, American
military aides to the Crown Prince,
and others. Some OF the Swedish
delegation lunched at the Congress
sional Country Club.
Senator Joseph Guffey, as toastmas-
ter at the May1ower dinner, hoped
that our Swedish friends will not
delay their return another 100 years
Some of us might not be here"
While national anthems were played
and American and Swedish flags float.
ed together at the far end of the ball
room. toasts were drunk TO the health
of Swedish King and American Pres
ident, to cries OF "Skol!'
The Royal Swedish New Sweden
Commissions chairman, j. Sigfrid Ed
strom, presented an antique Swedish
dove Of peace, in porcelain, to Secre-
tary Hull in recognition of his achieve
ments. Other cabinet officers amone
the guests were Attorney General
Cummings, Secretary of War Wood
ring and Secretary of Commerce
Roper.
Her royal highness, the Crown Prin-
cess, in diamond necklace, bracelets
and coronet, and young Prince Bertil,
standing more than feet tall, closed
the dinner last night by joining the
rest Of the visiting Swedes in .
Swedish four hurrahs" for Washing
ton. -