Neighbor George

When the 79-year-old author of My Boy Franklin lately landed in Britain gallant London editors surpassed themselves in honoring the President's mother. One even went so far as to hail her as WORLD'S MOST WONDERFUL WOMAN.

Knowing the Roosevelt liking for neighborliness, King George and Queen Mary bided their time. Then informally one day last week they sent over to the U. S. Embassy where Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt was stopping a friendly note suggesting that she come to Buckingham Palace for tea.

"I shall be back in time for dinner," vigorous Mrs. Roosevelt told frail Ambassador Bingham before she left the Embassy.

Outside the Palace, correspondents counted the minutes, then the hours. Mrs. Roosevelt's tea seemed to be verging on Their Majesties' dinner hour. Would she stay to dinner? If she did, what would Ambassador Bingham say to the guests he had invited to the Embassy that night for dinner?

Discreet Palace officials observed that "seldom has a visitor displayed such charming informality." King George, they said, was at the tea table but most of the animated conversation was between Queen Mary and Mrs. Roosevelt who rattled on not only about her son the President, but about his children and his children's children.

Just as nervous Embassy officials were wondering whether to telephone the Palace, out the garden gate glided Mrs. Roosevelt's limousine.

Their Majesties, newsmen were told, were impressed by "the gaiety, friendliness and frankness of Mrs. Roosevelt. She radiated pride in her famous son."

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