Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-07-17 | Page 3 | France Honors America's Name

ST DIE, France, July 1C The Franco-American fetes in honor of the naming of Amorica continued today. The American ambassador, Robert Bacon, Ba-con, and M. le Brun, the French minis ter of colonies, after an automobile trip through the j icturesque outskirts of the town, proceeded to the city hall, where the municipality gave a banquet in honor of the distinguished guests M. le Brun proposed the health of tho American ambassador. He spoke In English, saying that the French government was glnd to take part in the fetes because IV afforded France an opportunity of responding to the expressions of sympathy with France In America, which were especially numerous nu-merous this year, and .of deducing from this sentiment a certain guarantee guaran-tee that no material difficulty could affect the bonds of confidence and friendship which unite the two countries. coun-tries. oo