Word: camiones
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...proposed system of scholarships will produce the same mutual understanding between France and America that the Rhodes scholarships now create between England and this country. Approximately 127 students will be sent yearly to France universities-the same number as there were American ambulance and camion drivers killed in the war. It is in memory of these volunteers that the fund is to be raised, and to them Clemenceau dedicates the proceeds of his last visit to America...
...Baldridge explains, most of these drawings were made "during a year's service as camion driver with the French army . . . and on special duty with the 'Stars and Stripes', the official A. E. F. newspaper,," in which many of them found their first publication. "Most of them were drawn at odd moments during the French push of 1917 near Malmaison, at loading parks and along the roadside while on truck convoy, and while on special permission to draw and paint with the French army . . . The rest were drawn on American fronts from the Argonne to Belgium...
...Lucky At Games, Unlucky At Love," by F. A. Thompson '21, is the charming story of an 11-year-old American boy in France, while "En Route," by I. J. Williams, Jr., '20, is a vivid sketch of the American camion drivers in France, beginning at 3.45 A. M. It is evidently a very real experience...
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