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

Beng a combination of a rebel and a newspaperman
regret cannot be in Paris to report the reception
given the American Legion convention and the real
duct of the Legionares 1t is reportoria opportunity
comparable the one John Reed had during the Novem
her Revolution and like the chance Sinclair Lewis
dreamed of when he flew from Berlin to Austria at the
time Of the recent Vienna Instruction.
Anyone gancing through the convention stories in the
capitastic press easily that there is "a niger
in the woodple" Hints of the real story given
time and again between the lines" and an
sonal flashght paragraph slips by in spite of editors
copy-penclls.
coming week will be doctored is shown in the
announcement of the New York "Fmes" Sunday that
it's correspondents-who had much experience in
writing accounts to please the powers that be during
the war-will picture the of "ten years AFTER
Sir Philip Gibbs Walter Duranty, Edwin l.. James,
and Wythe Wlliams-these hacks will again ladle out
great spoonfus of mush for the mouths of public that
with dogke servity accepts what is handed out to it.
O. would that had newspaper that could afford to
send the authors of "Three Soldiers and What Price
Glory?" to picture the of ten 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
not intended that there should be- But the 500 Legion
chiefs and distinguished Frenchmen who ourneyed to
the little American cemetery. :"
What, only 500? How does such memorial service
compare to those in mourning for Sacco and Vanzetti
when tens of thousands of workers gathered in Boston,
New York. London, Berlin, Moscow and especially in
Paris?
Of course there are more than 500 Legonares in Paris
but they did not the Atlantic honor "their
rades who fell" large number of them in France
for the first time and they out to look for them
Frog hot mammas." That less than quarter of the
Legonares brought their wives along is a very sig
nlficant fact. But more of this later
Regarding the landing receptions-under the headline
"Havre Cheers Veterans-French Band Plays Star
Spangled Banner Legonares Land, read of the
unloading of the Cunarders Caronia and Tuscania 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
sympathiZers few witnessed the
early morning arrivals"
| This the way Havre cheered the veterans!
In separate story the landing of the liners Presi-
dent Harding and Republic at Gherbourg, read the
were cheered they marched through the streets
Yet in the next paragraph; "There formal
cepons yesterday when French military officials
were naturally smaller" / bet dollar to doughnut
they pretty small crowds.
French Hospitality Overwhelms Legion says another
Times" headline. But read that this hospitality
from society women" and that 1900 members
the Womens Auxiliary will visit the Duchess Dues al
her chateau Bonnees and 200 will visit the
Marquise de Canay at Mly."
! What what? Is the boycott of the French workers
effective that the wives of the American Fascist hav
nowhere to but to flock in droves Dutchesses anc
Maquises 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 con-
ventionl