American, British and French soldiers snapped to attention. A band played the Marseillaise, God Save the King, the Star-Spangled Banner. Slowly three men mounted the steps to the 30-ft. granite statue on the avenue Pasteur in Algiers. They laid wreaths of roses, chrysanthemums, carnations and tropical flowers on the slab supporting Lanowsky's figure of the Unknown Soldier. They saluted. Then they went off to lunch.
The lunch was in honor of crusty, one-legged Pierre Boisson, Governor General of French West Africa (including the port of Dakar). The three men who joined him were Kansas-bred Lieut. General Dwight Eisenhower, Commander of Allied Forces...
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