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Show I THE FRATERNITY OF PEOPLES Goal to Which Veterans cf World War Are Striving, Paris Post Adjutant Ad-jutant Declares. The "fraternity of peoples" was depleted de-pleted ns the poul toward which veterans vet-erans of the World war In all countries coun-tries are striving, In an address by Arthur W. Kipling, adjutant of Paris post, American Legion, to the annual convention of the "Union Nationale des Conihattants" at the Trocadero. Mr. Kipling greeted the French veterans vet-erans in the name of the veterans of I America, and explained that he had been designated to represent the '. American ex-service men at the gathering gath-ering of their comrades. "The effort which you are making today, my French comrades," he said, "is Identical with the effort which 'he Ann'rican I.t-gion is making in tue United States. We all seek the recovery recov-ery of the race, hy the young men of the race, for humanity's sake, and so that our efforts may end in the fraternity frater-nity of peoples, It depends upon us, former eomha'tints' In the great war, to understand each other and if necessary neces-sary to speak fra.ikly while looking each other squarely in the eye." Andre Lefevere, French minister of war, presided at the convention and addresses were also delivered by Gen. Leon Durand and Charles I'.ertrand, a deputy. Captain Torse, a Minded veteran, vet-eran, spoke for Britain's former soldiers sol-diers and ofiicers of the P.elgian and Italian armies carried messages from ex-service men if their countries. |