FRANCE: Legion d'Honneur

Gaston Doumergue, President of France and Grand Master of the Order of the Legion of Honor, was received by General Dubail, Grand Chancellor; General Nollet, Minister of War; Marshals of France Foch and Joffre, in full-dress uniform, U. S. Ambassador Myron T. Herrick, in full evening dress, when he arrived at the Palace of the Legion of Honor on the Quai d'Orsay.

The occasion was the opening of the Order's Museum, recently built beside the Palace. In the course of his opening address, the President referred to...

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