AMERICAN LEGIONARIES.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19164, 22 November 1927, Page 3

AMERICAN LEGIONARIES.

VISIT TO LONDON. WELCOME FROM THE PRINCE. (raoit oto ow» cobbispoxdikt.) LONDON, October 8. The section of the American Legion known as the National Commander's Party, which has been visiting Italy and Belgium after the demonstrations in Paris, arrived in London two days ago on a five days' visit as guests of the British Legion. After laying a wreath on the Cenotaph, they were welcomed by the Prince of Wales at a luncheon at the Hotel Cecil. The Hon. Howard P. Savage, National Commander of the Legion, is at the head of the party, which, consisting of about 270 men and women, is representative of the branches of the Legion, and its women auxiliary, in all the States. The Prince had a demonstrative reception when he appeared. The Republican representatives rose to their feet and cheered and cheered again. Some sang the National Anthem when the King was toasted, and when the health of the Prince was drunk they made the banqueting hall ring with ''For He's a Jolly Good Fellow," and the three successive cheers were given in the real British manner. One sentence indeed in his speech went "right home." He was speaking of the work of the British Legion and the Women's Auxiliary, and eulogised Lord Haig and Lndy Edward Spencer Churchill. "Although I am the patron," he said, "they are the people who do the work. lam more the fella who travels around and gets the hands." Bonds of Sacrifice. "What wonderful memories and yet what sad memories those battlefields must have stirred up within you when you visited them last month," said the Prince. "They must have reminded you most vividly of those days when you came over as our comrades in arms to help us "n the darkest days of what was the greatest crisis Europe had known. "We, of the British Legion, have not forgotten, and never will forget, the links which those hard days of war.forged between you, ~our brothers from the United States, now of the American Legion, and ourselves. It is the duty of the two great English-speaking nations of the world to see to it those links do not become a mere sentimental association, to see to it that they remain and continue always as strong and practical ties —ties to unite us in the big task of maintaining peace in a world which is realising that continued peace is absolutely necessary to its very existence."