Notes

Their Majesties the King and Queen arrived at Buckingham Palace after a month's vacation in Italy and the South of France (see FRANCE). To Crewe House, London home of U. S. Ambassadors, went three Royal carriages and with them powdered, wigged coachmen and footmen dressed in the Royal livery. They had come to take U. S. Ambassador Alanson B. Houghton and his staff to Buckingham Palace, where the newly accredited Ambassador presented his credentials to King George. Earl Balfour arrived in London from his Palestine tour (TIME, Mar. 23, Apr. 6 et seq., PALESTINE), received a mighty --and chiefly Zionist--ovation. In a press statement, he said: "I have been in no way disturbed by what happened in Damascus. Nor have I altered my views. I am more san guine than ever about the future of Zionism. I think it is being approached in the right way and the Jews are fully conscious of the necessity of working harmoniously with the Arabs. Earl Reading, Viceroy of India, was another notable London arrival. In order to avoid questions of precedence in India during his absence, Lord Reading was obliged to vest his viceroyalty in Lord Lytton and to travel as Governor General of India; Lord Lytton, Governor of Bengal, became for the duration of his absence Viceroy and Acting Governor General. Among the Labor delegates selected to attend the Socialist (Second) Inter nationale Congress in August are : ex-Premier J. Ramsay MacDonald, Arthur Henderson, George Lansbury. The body of the late Lord Rawlin son, Commander-in-Chief in India, having arrived from India, a funeral service was held in St. Margaret's Church, Westminster, attended by many prominent personages. Despite fears entertained by Scotland Yard and the public that a bomb coup similar to that which took place recently in Sofia (TIME, Apr. 27) would be attempted, the ceremony passed off without un toward incident.

*The only Cardinal resident in England. His Cathedral of Westminster is near the Anglican Abbey of that name, but should not be confused with it. Since the death of the Irish Cardinal Logue (TIME, Dec. 1), there are only two other British Cardinals--Begin of Canada and Gasquet Librarian of the Church, at Rome. The U. S. has four--O'Connell, Dougherty, Mundelein, Hayes. /-Roman Catholic society.