A PRESIDENT REMEMBERS.
One evening, 30 years ago, some French and foreign students were merry in a famous cafe in the Latin Quartier of Paris, when a young foreign student came in and asked if someone would lend him 25 francs (then worth £1). A young Frenchman, who has sipce become a wellknown journalist, said: “You want 25 francs? Well, here are 50. Pay me back when you can.” The for-eigner-thanked him, and asked him for his pame, saying, “ I will never forget it.” All that was forgotten by the journalist till recently, when—3o years after the loan—the journalist received a case of 3000 cigars from Havana (says the Paris correspondent of the London Sunday Times).. A letter explained that the parcel was from General Machado, President of the Republic of Cuba. “ You probably no longer remember the student whom you obliged one evening,” wrote the President. “As you have become a great journalist, so I have become President of my country, and am sending you these cigars by way of thanking you for an act that saved me long ago.”
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Putaruru Press, Volume VIII, Issue 346, 10 July 1930, Page 5
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181A PRESIDENT REMEMBERS. Putaruru Press, Volume VIII, Issue 346, 10 July 1930, Page 5
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