The Archive · 1937

Americans in Paris Celebrate Fourth

Exposition Building Opened in Splendid Style A Paris, July 5.

Americans in exile probably celebrated the Fourth of July yesterday more splendidly in Paris than in any city in the world outside the United States. The national holiday was made the occasion for the opening of the American pavilion at the International Exposition.

The Ambassador, Mr. William C. Bullitt, officiated, in the presence of Cen. J. J, Pershing and the French Minister of Commerce, M. Georges Chapsal, and afterward held a reception at the building. It was an interesting innovation, after years of annual receptions at the Embassy, and hundreds appeared in answer to the Ambassador's invitation.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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