The Archive · 1935

German War Veterans in England

London, June 20.

The first organized patty of German ex-servicemen to visit England since the Great War, arrived in Dover to-day and were given a warm welcome there by representatives of the British Legion.

They will attend a rally of the Brighton branch of the British Leion.

'Their leader, interviewed by pressmen, said that' although the Germans were opposed to Britain during the Great War, they are glad to grasp the hand of friendship at the gute-way to England, The visit of the German ex-servicemen follows the recent appeal of the Prince of Wales for the burial of the war hatchet, a suggestion heartiendorsed in both countries—Reuter.

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