The Cordova daily times., 1921-07-26
MEN FORMERLY OF Al F. WILL
 VISIT FRANCE
By Associated Press)

September at the invitation of Presi- dent Millerand. will represent every section of the Unitd States and all arms of the fighting forces in the war. Every state will have it's quota and if possible every combat division will have representation. says an an nouncement by the legion
 A fixed quota, based on legion membership, has been allotted to each state Not all who have asked to be included can go, but it is the purpose of Franklin boiler, the former national commander of the legion who is in charge of the pill grimage to make the party "a cross section of our former fighting forces" Selection of the members is in the hands of the state organiza- tions of the legion.
 Details of the tour in France which have just been made public show that the Americans will visit again the principal American bat tlefieds. attend various dedicatory ceremonies and will be entertained at numerous receptions.
 The party will sail aboard the George Washington on August 3 and will return about the middle of Sep tember. The principal events of the visit will be the dedication at Flirey of monument to the American army, which is the gift of the French municipality and the people of LOT rairc; and the laying of the corner stone of the new bridge "Pont Roose- welt" over the Marne at Chateau Thierry.
 President NIiIIerand, Premier Driand and the marshols of France are expected to be present at the ceremonies at Tlircy. Flirey is ta. miliar ground to th \. E. r. It is sit uatcd in the old Foul sector which the American troops took over in 1917. The village itself is only 2ooo yards from the old front line of the sector which was held at one time or an other by r American divisions.
 Another reception of note to the Americans will be by the little town of St. Die in the Dunvllc sector, also long held by Americans. St Dies claim to special attention in light of the Legion visit rests on the fact that in St Die stands the house in which the continent of American received it's name. It is the one-time abode of Waldsee-Mul- Ter. the Alsatian monk, when he wrote the letter suggesting that the new world take the name of the Italian navigator. Amerigo Vespucci.
 Marshal Foch will be lat home" to the visiting legionnaires. He will receive them in the house in which he was born in the town of Taubes in the Pyrenees mountains.
 There will be receptions to the pilgrims at Paris, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Lyon, Metx and Strasbourg. At Yer dun the party will sleep in the fam. ous citadel.
 At Rheims the veterans will attend the presentation of the 5000 000-franc gift of the Carnegie foundation to the city library there. At Blois. St. Jeanne D'Arc will be honored The Legionnaires will witness the dedi. cation of statue to the French hero inc which is the gift of the Joan of Arc committee of New York.
 Under the terms by which the le. zion accepted the hospitality of the French government. the expenses of the expedition will be borne by the delegates themselves or by the legion organization.
 Mir D'Olier says that the proposal for the visit has been received with such enthusiasm by the American veterans as to constitute striking and spontaneous tribute to France as Il former ally.
 The American veterans feel that the forthcoming expedition marks the entrance of the legion on the stage of international affairs and that it will tend to knit more closely a mutual understanding among vet erans, not only of France and the United States, but of all allied coun. tries" he said. Tt shows that in the hearts of Americans who wore the uniform there surely dwells an abiding affection for France and the poiu. It is noteworthy that many applications come from men who did 1 mt seq fOrpiyn servica durinp tba