The Improvement Era reports on Heber J. Grant's European itinerary.
"President Grant's European Itinerary," Improvement Era 40, no. 8 (August 1937): 467
"The Log of a European Tour," by Lucy Grant Cannon, pages 482-483, follows President Grant and the Centennial party from Salt Lake City to Cherbourg, France. A subsequent installment by the same author will tell more of the European activities of the President of the Church and the three members of the General Presidency of the Y. W. M. I. A. Here, however, we briefly account for the President's time following the arrival at Cherbourg, June 22.
At Cherbourg the President and the more than three score westerners of the Centennial party were greeted aboard the Empress of Australia by Dr. Richard R. Lyman, and President O. F. Ursenbach of the French Mission. A mid-ocean cable had changed the President's plans, in accordance with which he proceeded to Paris, where, on June 24, he addressed the American Club as an invited guest.
A brief stay in Paris was devoted to making the acquaintance of members of the Church there and to visiting scenes of war interest, art interest and other general attractions.
On June 26 the journey was made from Paris to French Mission headquarters in Liege, Belgium, where he met with the missionaries laboring near Liege that evening and next day spoke at the Seraing and Liege Sunday Schools, dedicated the Herstal Branch chapel and spoke at evening services at the Liege chapel.
Subsequent days found the President's party in Ypres, Geneva and Basel. Several days, beginning July 4, were spent at the last named place which is the headquarters of the new Swiss-Austrian Mission. From here visits were made in the Czecho-Slovakian Mission, followed by approximately a week in Germany.
Following the visit in Germany the party traveled to England, where from July 20, and continuing for more than ten days, British Mission Centennial activities were scheduled to include the dedication of a chapel in Liverpool, the dedication of a monument on the River Ribble, and a Centennial gathering in Rochdale, July 31 to August 2.
Following the British Centennial celebration, President Grant plans visits to the scene of the International Boy Scout Jamboree in Holland, followed by a tour of the Netherlands and Scandinavian Missions.
In many of his European activities President Grant is joined by President J. Reuben Clark, Jr. His party also includes in some of the various stages of travel, Dr. Richard R. Lyman, Centennial President of the European Mission; President Grant's Secretary, Joseph Anderson, his daughter, Lucy Grant Cannon, Ruth May Fox and Clarissa A. Beesley of the General Presidency of Y. W. M. I. A, Richard Grant Smith, a grandson and released British missionary, the Presidents of the Missions visited, and other members of the Church now in Europe.
The President is expected to return to Salt Lake City about the middle of September.