AMERICAN LEGION

Evening Star, Issue 19661, 14 September 1927, Page 5

AMERICAN LEGION

CCKVENTIOH IN PARIS GREAT WELCOME PREPARED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright* LONDON, September 12. The Paris correspondent of ‘ Tlio Times’ states that extensive preparations arc being made for the entertainment of 20,000 American cx-scrvicemon and their families, who are now approaching Franco in twenty liners to hold the annual convention of the American Legion. I - ranee is determined to honor them as fully as the first Legionaries in 1017, erecting triumphal arches and decorating and illuminating the principal streets and roofing in the Court Invalidcs, where the Government is giving an enormous ball. Inasmuch as the Legionaries announce that the visit is also a pilgrimage, the principal ceremony will be a march to tho Lnknown Soldier’s Tomb, for which the barriers of tbe Arc de Triomphe have been removed for the second time since tho Germans inarched to the Arc in 1870, the first being the Allied victory in March, 1919. Tho Government/ realising the unique opportunity for touching tho hearts of the Americans of the Middle West, is fully using the situation, and it is expected to appeal to the Legionaries to facilitate, a settlement of the Franco-Americaa finances. ‘ The Times.’