Evening star., 1940-10-19
Roosevelt Welcomes
Earl Of Ath|one al
Hyde Park Today
Visit Of Governor General
Of Canada Is PortIy
Social, President Says
BY JOHN C. HENRY,
Star Staff Correspondent,

HYDE PARK, N. Y, Oct. 19.-
President Roosevelt received the
First Family of the Dominion of
Canada here today for social week.
end likely to embrace important
conversations on the mutual inter-
ests and joint policy of these neigh
boring nations.
In the visiting party arriving at
nearby Poughkeepsie shortly before
IL o'clock this morning were the
Earl of Athlone, Governor General
of Canada and uncle of Britain's S
King George VI; Princess Alice,
wife of the governor, and Lady
Abel Smith, their daughter. Attend
ing them were Sir Shuldham Red
fern. secretary to the governor, and
Nine. Ariel Baird, lady in waiting to
Princess Alice.
The President met his guests at
the nearby Poughkeepsie Railroad
Station, accompanied by George T.
Summerlin, protocol officer of the
State Department. Mrs. Roosevelt
was at Hyde Park House with the
President to receive the guests.
The President sat In his car while
the visitors posed for photographs
Mr.. Summerlin boarded their train
as it arrived, and escorted the
party through the station to the
Presidents car. Princess Alice
greeted the Chief Executive first
with a warm smile and handclasp
and the Governor General was i'm
mediately behind her. After the
rest of the group had been pre-
sented, these two and Lady Abel
took seats in the car with Mr.. Roose-
velt and the remainder of the party
followed in other White House au-
tomobiles.
Visit Partly Social.
At his press conference yesterday,
Mr.. Roosevelt described the visit of
the Canadians as partly a social
one, since they were to be his per-
sonal guests at his family home.
He added, however, that their jour-
ney to the United States was a
continuance of a custom of inter-
changing visits between heads of
the two governments, initiated sew
eral years ago.
That the relationships between the
Washington and Ottawa govern
ments have been growing ever
closer during the years of the Roose-
velt administrations, and particu-
larly since the Dominion entered the
European war, has, of course, been
clearly obvious. In the course of
this development the President
himself has taken leading and di-
rect part, the most recent instance
being his meeting last summer near
the New York Canadian border with
Prime Minister w. L. Mackenzie
King-at which time establishment
of the Canadian Joint
Defense Board was agreed upon and
announced.
st. Lawrence Is Latest Move.
In the past few days a further
indication of this consciousness of
mutuaIty has occurred in the de-
cision of the President to allocate
100000 of the discretionary de-
fense fund at his disposal to pre-
liminary work on a great St. Law
renee River power project at the
International Rapids.
The Chief Executives message to
Congress on the matter empha-
sized that the power eventually to
be developed would be shared joint
ly by the two nations and that it
is of vital Importance to the Can
adam American defense industries
of that area. At the same. time,
although the President has ac-
knowledged that provision is made
to consider the possible installation
of locks and other navigation re-
quirements, the waterway aspects