The Archive · 1938

Mr, Hoover Arrives in France

Fofmer U.S. President to Make Survey Tour Lo Havre, Feb. 16.

The former president of the United States, Mr. Herbert Hoover, arrived here this morning from New York oh his way.to Belgium, where he has been invited by various Belgian and American-Belgian associations to visit the scene of his work during the World War when he was head of the famine relief commission.

Mr. Hoover will spend several days in Belgium and will be received by King Lepold III He will then visit Finland and Czechoslovakia, where he will be received by M. Edward Benes, the Czech President, returning here via Geneva and Paris. Mr. Hoover declared that his tour will be at the same time a survey journey.

—Havas,

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

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