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...Whisked back to Manhattan, Frenchman Laval was engulfed by French compatriots. Before he could sail on the S. S. Ile de France, the French Chamber of Commerce staged a banquet, roared "Vive Laval! Vive la France!" in thunderous approval of the Premier's parting words...
Ensued nearly ten years of neglect. Rust nearly did what the British Navy could not, but in 1926 the French shipbuilding firm of Penhoet at St. Nazaire, builders of the liners Ile de France, Paris and France, offered to rebuild her. The Turkish Government accepted on condition that the entire job be done in Turkey...
...Ambassador to France Walter Evans Edge cabled to Camden, N. J. for fresh asparagus. Two crates were promptly shipped to him on S. S. Ile de France...
Last March the S. S. Ile de France brought into the U. S. a French girl who spoke no English. Her name was Lily Pons but it mattered to no one. She went to bed for eight days to recover from seasickness...
...Also aboard the S. S. Ile de France" was the way most Manhattan newspapers referred last week to Dr. Earle Brownell Babcock, associate director of the European centre of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Cinemactor Charles ("Buddy") Rogers. A chocolate-brown third class passenger eclipsed in news value the entire first and second class. As he stepped ashore, "The Black Eagle of Harlem," Colonel Hubert Fauntleroy Julian, "The Negro Lindbergh," faced batteries of press cameras, eloquently told his tale...