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...Georges Scapini French War hero typifying for France the same courageous spirit which Sergeant York winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor typifies for America is to lecture in the Harvard Union at 8 o'clock this evening...
...only is Scapini a national figure because of his war record, but he is one of the most brilliant lawyers in France and a prominent member of the French Chamber of Deputies. He is visiting the United States at the special invitation of Ambassador Herrick and the American Legion...
...when the American Legion held their convention in Paris, they were addressed by Scapini. General Perishing and the other leaders of the A. E. F. were so impressed with the personality of this blind soldier that they urged him to visit the United States the following year. It is in accordance with this request that Scapini is here at the present time having been the sole official French representative to the sole American Legion Convention at San Antonio, Texas last month...
Major Georges Scapini, blind World War veteran, member of the French Chamber of Deputies, arrived in Manhattan on the lie de France, to be guest of honor at the American Legion convention, which opens in San Antonio, Tex., on Oct. 8. For the same purpose, Field Marshall Sir Edmund Allenby, Viscount of Megiddo and of Felixstowe, conqueror of Jerusalem, sailed from England on the Majestic...