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Show 188 MADELYN CANNON STEWART SILVER sugar works and attended the British Sugar Corporation's First Technical Conference at the Felixstone Hotel. Harold and Madelyn were the guests of honor at the conference, where Harold delivered a paper, carefully edited by Madelyn, on his new Silver diffuser and its application to factories in England. The United States had inaugurated the Marshall Plan for European reconstruction in April 1948, just before their tour, and, upon their return, Harold and Madelyn were invited to speak to schools and businesses and civic groups in Denver and other Colorado cities on economic and social conditions in Europe. The next year, on February 14, 1949, Madelyn and Harold took a six-week trip to Europe and the Middle East to promote the Silver beet sugar continuous diffuser and to celebrate their twentieth wedding anniversary. They visited relatives and friends in Washington, D.C. and New York City, then boarded the Queen Elizabeth for Cherbourg. Madelyn's trip diary records that, in boarding, she wore a green wool dress trimmed with brown satin, a brown sealskin coat, a brown hat trimmed with green ribbon, and a brown orchid corsage. "The colors," she wrote, "were wonderful." In the evenings she wore a black evening dress with white ruching, and a lovely coral-colored camellia corsage. For ordinary daily wear she put on a tweed suit. They had a cabin-class stateroom. Tipped off about their anniversary, ship's crew had an anniversary dinner and played "I Love You Truly," while Harold provided twenty gorgeous red roses. From Cherbourg to Beuaawla, from which they went to Tirlemont, Harold sold six beet pilers to Rafinerie Tirlemontoise. As she walked through the streets of Brussels, Madelyn thought: "I must tell my children about this: When they see me lying dead someday, they must think: It's all right. Mother has been happy. She has had glorious experiences, exhilarating adventures. Life has been all she ever desired. Wherever she went, she enjoyed meeting people. If there was a a language problem .she would smile, gesture, and manage visited Cairo, Luxor, rudimentary communication. They Athens, Rome, Florence, Pisa, Paris, Brussels, Copenhagen, and London. Their experiences included the Louvre, and a colorful "23 |
