Tooted at by every passing steamer, there stands at No. 17 Battery Place, Manhattan, the Washington-Lafayette Institute, an organization founded recently by one Charles E. Bedaux to promote Franco-U. S. accord.
Last week the officers of this institution learned with alarm that the U. S. debt claims upon France were being held up to ridicule by a loud-voiced Parisian revue performer, Mlle. Marcelle Parisys, in Quel Beau Nu at the Concert Mayol, Paris, (TIME, Feb. 8). Swiftly the following cablegram was despatched to the Washington-Lafayette Institute's...
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