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Show Inter- Allied Federation of Veterans A m ,iiii.iii,n,i..iii .i i i iii"'u ""'"!"! 'llll!Mlll!!!!r'"ll'TIT-'''' IT im"i""'llr ' i'i In ' " ' ' ' V" t ' National Commander Ilanford MacNIder of the American Legion believes be-lieves In the world-wide influence of the Inter-Allied Federation of Veterans. Vet-erans. He says: "You know what our various activities ac-tivities are. I am not going Into them. There is one thing which I think may be of Interest, and that Is the Inter-Allied Inter-Allied Federation of Veterans which meets at New Orleans the week before our national convention In October this fall. We will have, men from every allied country, from South Africa, Af-rica, from Jugo-Slavla, Canada, France, from the British Legion, which Is patterned after the American Legion, Le-gion, which is now carried on In the British Isles all those men are coming com-ing together with the thought that we are tied together perhaps by the strongest bonds that men can ever have the bonds between those who have fouKbt side by side In battle against a common enemy. We feel that that Is going to prove as strong a factor If not a stronger factor than any International conferences or agreements agree-ments toward the prevention of a future war. We are not pacifists, but as men with open eyes and hard-earned experience we know what this all means, and nothing la going to disrupt the comradeship formed on the field of battle." |