Show HEADS COMMITTEE t ON WORLD PEACE r Thomas Amory Lee of Topeka Kan V was ms one of the many spirited high who served F Americans of mature age with the French army In the earl early stages of the war wal until the United V i States threw down the gauntlet In n nV V Vi April 1017 In the fall and winter of ot un 1917 7 he served with the Fo Foyer er du Sold Soldat at on the Clu Champagne front and saw strenuous V V V ous service ser In that sanguinary conflict Shortly th thereafter after re-after he enlisted as a private In the Thirty second second le regiment of ot French artillery artiller and remained with that unit until he decI decided ed that service with his hits own countrymen men was need ful Thereupon he enlisted In the Twenty sixth sixth American regiment n a apart part of the famous First division lon and remained with that outfit until after 1 the armistice Injured at Cantigny early earlyS S In 1918 he still found the strength to rejoin his outfit in time to participate In inS the battle of Soissons where he was wounded 4 S I I i 5 if a y Thomas Amory Lee After his discharge at Camp Devens he returned to Topeka to resume his practice of law but was drafted by br the soldiers ex of his Ills state to represent them at the St. St Louis caucus of the American Legion not then named or organized He organized Capital post of Topeka continued In Legion service until elected elected elect elect- C ed department commander of Kansas for 1 1920 21 Since then he has been appointed one of the directors of the American Le Legion ion Weekly the official publication of ot the Legion In 1924 at atthe atthe the time national convention at St. St Paul he was selected by reason renson of ot his wide studies along International lines Hues to head a committee on world peace It ItIs ItIs Itis Is his duty ut to select the most outstanding outstanding out out- standing and meritorious world peace plans lans presented for judgment either here or abroad study them carefully as to their feasibility and report at the Omaha convention with his recommendations recommendations as to the best one for the Legion to endor endorse e. e A scholar a writer of profound articles articles arti arti- d cles es and a successful law lawyer er rho Thomas mas Amory Lee has devoted much of his time to developing the Legion g along the Ideals of service enunciated in Paris and at St. St Louis He lie was born In Topeka In 1889 which makes him fort six forty years ears old V After graduation from the Kemper Military school Kansas university he studied at nt Harvard Law school an and I then returned to Topeka to practice r He has traveled extensively l abroad and In 1924 1024 represented the American Legion as a delegate to the d War Val Veterans' Veterans association congress In London He lie Is also a member of the Legions Legion's Permanent Commission on on 55 V Foreign Relations |