Evening Star Newspaper, January 2, 1942, Page 22

A-22 X Churchill Pays Visit To Mount Vernon And Lincoln Shrine Prays With President In Washington’s Pew At Alexandria Church By BLAIR BOLLES. New Year Day was “American National Heroes' Day” for Winston Churchill, the Prime Minister of | Great Britain. He attended Episco- | palian services in Christ Church, Alexandria, where George Washing- ton once was a vestryman. He laid | a wreath on George Washington's | tomb at Mount Vernon and he paid & visit to the Lincoln Memorial. Mr. Churchill was accompanied | on his respectful rounds yesterday by President and Mrs. Roosevelt, Ambassador Halifax of Great Britain and Lady Halifax, Maj. Gen. FEdwin M. Watson, U. S. A, the President’s military aide; Capt. John Beardall, U. S. N, the President’s | naval aide, and Comdr. C. R.| Thompson, R. N, the Prime Min- ister's aide. ‘Their progress from the White House to Mount Vernon and back was accomplished in a long caravan of cars for whose passage the roads were kept clear by soldiers and police. “What a wet day,” the Prime Minister remarked to Mrs. Roose- velt at Mount Vernon after he had laid his wreath on the tomb of resident Washington. He stood in the rain before the tomb with his hat—Anthony Eden style—doffed, and let the photographers catch him in a dozen poses. He fussed with the wreath, of iris and camelias draped with the red-white-and-blue of both the United States and Eng- land, when he put it on the tomb until it was in what he considered perfect alignment Relaxes at White House, ‘The Prime Minister arrived in Washington from Canada by train at 9 am. He went to the White House for a brief relaxation. and shortly before 11 he and the Presi- dent and the others in their party drove off for Alexandria and the services at Christ Church. The posting of sentries outside the church had apprised Alexandria something was up. despite efforts to keep the prospective prime minis- terial appearance at Christ Church a secret, and a large crowd was in the street to witness Mr, Churchill's arrival. Mr. Churchill, Mr. Roosevelt and Mrs. Roosevelt sat in the pew where in far distant days Washington sat —a pew for which Washington paid almost $200 a year rent. The church was not quite filled. Two hundred &nd fifty parishioners, specially in- vited. were in their pews for the ex- traordinary occasion. President Roosevelt had been to Christ Church before, but not the Prime Minister of England. The parishioners admitted for the services were those who have been most faithful in regular attend- ance 2t Christ Church. The chuych seats fewer than 500 in all. The list was made up by the Rev. Edward Randolph Welles, the rector, and submitted to the Secret Service for scrutiny. Many of those on the list had no idea when they retired to bed Wednesday night that Prime! Minister Churchill would go to church in Alexandria the following morning, much less that they would go to church with him. Secrecy Is Observed. At 5 am. vesterday ecclesiastical Paul Reveres, the vestrymen of Christ Church, were sent to the homes of the selected to inform them that the British were coming to Alexandria six hours hence and | that they were invited to take part.| Some of the awakened fortunate found it difficult to understand what message was being given them. This procedure was part of the #crupulous scheme of precaution ar- ranged in order to keep within the narrowest bounds the preliminary intelligence of Mr. Churchill's com- ing The sweet music of the proces- sional hymn, “Refresh Thy People on Their Toilsome Way,” was filling the church as the Prime Minister and the President and their party entered. The invited parishioners, already in their pews, watched the two great men make their slow ways down the eisle to the front of the church—the old red brick church, built in 1773, a “simple church, ap- propriate to the purpose of today,” as the Rev. Mr. Welles told the people there “Our President has appointed this first day of 1942 as a day of prayer, of asking forgiveness for our short- comings of the past, of consecration to the tasks of the present, of ask- ing God's help in days to come,” the Rev. Mr. Welles said in his ser- mon. He preached from near the church ceiling, so high was the winestem pulpit. Pardon for Shortcomings. “We are to pray for three gifts from God: Pardon, power and peace. Parden for past shortcomings, power for the present task of achieving victory and peace—endur- ing peace—by God's help in days to_come.” The Rev. Mr. Welles devoted much of his sermon to vigorous expres- sions about the belligerent politics of our day and prayed that we in America would develop “a deep spiritual unity that will make us ready. even eager, to sacrifice our material goods, and when necessary even life itself, for the moral prin- ciples for which this war is being fought. “By far our greatest sin in past and present as a Nation is the sin of international irresponsibility. We want our country and our people to have power and prestige, pleas- ures and possessions, but we balk | at the international responsibllity‘ which those privileges impose. “Nationally we have been like the priest and the Levite in the story of the Good Samaritan—we have passea by on the other side when we have seen other nations in need or peril, or we have given them aid at the end of a 3.000-mile pole, fearful of involving ourselves in danger or drastic sacrifice. We have wanted other nations to pay the supreme price for human liberty while we gave them dollar credits.” | The street was thronged when the services were over, and Mr. Churchill | got a high ovation. In the second- | story window of a house facing the | church, Secret Service men saw! somebody photographing the Prime“ Minister. They took the film from | the camera and cautioned the ama- | teur photographer not take more | pictures of the same scene. ! From Christ Church the party went to Mount Vernon, to the tomb and the mansion. Then they drove | #o the Lincoln Memorial I “THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. (., FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 1942. Raleigh Store Hours—9:30 a.m. until 6:15 p.m. Men—in the face of current conditions, it's certainly wise to consider clothing savings, but it's also good, sound judgment to consider QUALITY. Because now, more than ever, QUALITY IS IMPORTANT for it means greater satisfaction in fit and wear. 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