Next year, probably in May, representatives of about 70 British towns are to pay a visit to as the guests of the French nation, which will entertain them'as a mark of gratitude for the "adoption" of villages in the war-devastated area and the assistance given to these communities in making a fresh start. The British visitors will be thanked personally by the President Jof the Republic at the Elysee for what they have done for France ince the war and their continued] interest in the "adopted" com-
'Among those who are taking part' in the arrangements for the visit are Lord Derby, as president of the United Associations of Great Britain and France, and the committees of each section of that body.
This promises to be the greatest assembly of Lord Mayors, Mayors and Lord Provosts that has ever been soon in Paris and it should help to late "war-time confraternity, which is naturally apt to weaken in the course of time as the proportion of thoss with no personal experience of the war becomes greater and greater In aldition to the reception at the Elysee, the City of Paris will hold a: big reception at the Hotel de Ville, and the visitors will also be conducted to the University City and to Versailles, After these functions the party will break up and the rep: sentatives of each British town will travel to the i their "adopted'
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