The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-20
Reading Between the Lines"
About Paris By WALTER snow

Being combination of rebel and newspaperman,
regret cannot be in Paris to report the reception
given the American Legion convention and the real
duct of the Legionaires 1t is reportoria opportunity
comparable the John Reed had during the Nove-
her Revolution and like the chance Sinclair Lewis
dreamed of when he flew from Berlin to Austria at the
time Of the recent Vienna Insurrection.
Anyone gancing through the convention stories in the
captalisc press easily that there is "a niger
in the woodple" Hints of the real story given
time and again between the lines" and
sonal fashlight paragraph slips by in spite of editors
copy-pencils
coming week will be doctored is shown in the
announcement of the New York 'Tmes" Sunday that
its correspondents-who had much experience in
writing accounts to please the powers that be during
the war-wi picture the of "ten years after"
Sir Philip Gibbs Walter Duranty, Edwin L. James,
and Wythe Williams-these hacks will again ladle out
great spoonfuls of mush for the mouths of public that
with doglike servity accepts what is handed
send the authors of Three Soldiers" and what Price
Glory?" to picture the of en years after"
realistically as they did in writing of the carnage
However, buried amid yards of floral writing that
reads like the efforts Of cub reporter who has just
finished the poems of Keats and Swinburne finds
the following revealing statements in the "Times."
Regarding the impressive" memorial service at
Suresnes Cemetery-"No great crowd there it was
not intended that there should be- But the 500 Legion
chiefs and distinguished Frenchmen who journeyed to
the little American cemetery. :"
What, only 500? How does such memorial service
compare to those in mourning for Sacco and Vanzett
when tens of thousands of workers gathered in Boston,
New York, London Berlin Moscow and especially in
Paris?
Of there more than 500 Legionares in Paris
but they did not the Atlantic honor her COM
rades who fell large number of them are in France
for the first time and they out to look for "them
Frog hot mammas' That less than quarter of the
Legionares brought their wives along is a very sig
nificant fact. But of this later.
Regarding the landing receptions-under the headline
"Havre Cheers Veterans-French Band Plays Star
Spangled Banner Legionares Land" read of the
unloading of the Cunarders Caronia and Tuscana and
the French liner DeGrasse Save for the French army
band and the strong police guards which had been
dered out to guard against possible demonstration by
sympahizers few persons witnessed the
early morning arrivals"
This the way Havre cheered the veterans
In separate story the landing of the liners Pres-
dent Harding and Republic at Cherbourg, we read the
were cheered they marched through the streets
Yet in the next paragraph: "There formal re-
captions yesterday when French military officials
handshaked Black Jack Pershing) and the crowds
naturally smaller" | bet dollar to a doughnut
they pretty small crowds
French Hospitality OverwheIms Legion" says another
Times" headline But read that this hospitality
comes from society women and that 1900 members of
the Womens Auxiliary will visit the Duchess d'Uzes at
her chateau Bonneles and 200 more will visit the
Marquse de Canay at My."
What, what? Is the boycott of the French workers
effective that the wives of the American Fascist have
nowhere to go but to flock in droves to Duchesses and
Maquses The doctored stories of the boycott say that
only few Communists who don't represent the French
masses, refusing to take part in welcoming the
vention