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General Henri Joseph Etienne Gouraud, Military Governor of Paris, long of beard, lame of leg, empty of right sleeve, arrived in the U. S. for the first time since 1923 to attend, in Baltimore, the annual convention of the Rainbow (42nd) Division which was under his command when he broke the German offensive in the crucial Battle of Champagne (July 1918). Historians recalled that both General Gouraud's legs and one arm were riddled in Gallipoli. Surgeons said the arm would heal in three months. The General asked how soon he could return to the front if the arm were...
...necessary," said black-bearded, unibrachial General Henri Joseph Etienne Gouraud, Military Governor of Paris, "to perpetuate the memory of those battles in which the enemy resorted for the first time to a procedure which the inscription upon this monument describes with justice as abominable...
While General Gouraud was discussing abominations in Belgium, a noted French journalist, M. Ernest Judet was disclosing in the Paris press some interesting facts about the first gas attack...
...Cleveland returned last week to Paris aboard the chic, sumptuous S. S. Paris of the French Line. Landing at Havre, he was welcomed by the Mayor. Stepping off his train at the Gare St. Lazare, he was embraced by the Military Governor of Paris, sleek General Henri Joseph Etienne Gouraud. French throngs jammed the station, crying "Vive L'Ambassadeur! Vive Herrick!" Not often does France welcome so tried and sterling a friend as the U. S. Ambassador, Myron Timothy Herrick, who returned, last week, after a long, treacherous illness at his home in Cleveland, to Paris, his other home...
...Eiffel Tower is a fine eyeful, but I'll be mighty glad to get a look at the lady out on Bedloe's Island!" . . . ¶ Aboard the S. S. Ile de France, the indefatigable Mayor sent radio-grams by the dozen. A specimen message (to General Gouraud, military governor of Paris): "No feature of my wonderful reception by a marvelous city stands out so affectionately in my memory as my meeting with you dear general." Another radio the Mayor sent was to U. S. newsgatherers who asked him if he had indeed insisted upon the ejection...