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...there. Gone too was the academic calm. Young lawyers waved their long black sleeves and roared: "Justice! Justice! Justice! Pfui Chéron'. A has les Assassins!" To the base of a memorial to all French judges who have died for their country the young lawyers dragged a huge wreath. It was marked: IN MEMORY OF JUDGE PRINCE?MURDERED...
Next morning found the Postmaster General breakfasting at the Executive Mansion at Springfield, Ill. He paid a courtesy call on Catholic Bishop Griffin, toured the post office, lunched with and addressed the Mid-Day Club, made a speech at the Fair Grounds, visited Lincoln's home, placed a wreath on Lincoln's tomb, drove to New Salem, inspected all 13 of the reconstructed log cabins of the town of which Lincoln was postmaster. That night in Springfield he dined with practically every important Democrat in Illinois...
Soon two British battleships, three cruisers and seven destroyers were looking for the corpse of Surgeon Lieut. Robinson. When it could not be found, Dictator Kemal offered to send a Turkish battleship to throw a wreath into the sea while a British chaplain read the funeral service, "thereafter the incident to be considered closed." This offer His Majesty's Government accepted, breathed not a word about demanding either an indemnity or an apology from Kemal's Turkey...
Leaving behind in Panama a wreath of newspaper eulogies calling him "the world's best neighbor," President Roosevelt and the Houston vanished into a blazing Pacific sunset. Next day the cruiser anchored off tiny Cocos Island, 500 mi. west of Panama, where Vincent Astor had told the President there was good fishing. From its davits the President's special fishing launch splashed into the blue waters. All hands applauded when the President hooked, played and landed a 50 lb. ono (mackerel-like fish). Franklin Jr.'s ono had its tail snapped off by a shark as it was being pulled...
...Britain, George and Mary visited a round of airports, luckily missing one air pageant in which two aviators were killed. ¶ In Western Canada, picnicking citizens complained about the drought. ¶ In Aix-les-Bains, the Viceroy of India, Lord Willingdon, away from his post on leave, laid a wreath on a French cenotaph...