L'Ambassadeur Bienvenu

COMMONWEALTH (British Commonwealth of Nations}

The Prince of Wales, as the Earl of Chester, arrived in Paris "to have a good time."

It has been truthfully remarked that Republican France adores royalty--its own royalty excepted. King Edward VII was sympathique and un gaillard; the Princes of Wales, who may one day be Edward VIII, is also sympathique. Paris was flattered by his visit, which was taken everywhere to have been "a wise political move." It was hoped that the volume of chilled air between Downing Street in London and the Quai d'Orsay in Paris would be considerably warmed by the Prince's manifest friendship for France.

He arrived in Paris one evening at six o'clock. At nine o'clock, he was seen at Giro's foxtrotting between courses. "Some time after midnight," he went to the Seine because he wanted to see it before the floods abated. The following morning he rubbed shoulders with Parisiens and Parisiennes of all kinds, shapes and sizes as he went about in the pouring rain "to do some shopping." In the afternoon he paid an unofficial visit to President Millerand at the Palais dElysee. In the evening he went to the theatre. His next day was spent in "amusing himself," at least until he had to attend a dinner at the British Embassy. His last day was spent in a wild round of incognito lunches, dinners, dances. . , . Next morning the Earl of Chester had left gay Paris.