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Roosevelt goes to Tomb of Unknown Soldier; U.S. troops parade in Paris and Rome
By the United Press
America, Britain and France, nearing the climax of their second great war against Germany in a quarter of a century, joined yesterday in observance of the armistice which ended hostilities of World War I on Nov. 11, 1918.
In Washington, President Roosevelt watched as a wreath was placed on the Tomb of America’s Unknown Soldier in brief and simple ceremonies at Arlington Memorial Cemetery. He was accompanied by his military advisers.
Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain and Gen. Charles de Gaulle, Provisional President of France, attended similar ceremonies in Paris at the French Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
Review Allied troops
Then they walked down the Champs-Élysées to a reviewing stand to watch a parade of 8,000 U.S., British and French troops. A wildly cheering Paris crowd saluted them and the first Allied military parade in Paris since the city’s liberation.
It was Mr. Churchill’s first visit to Paris in five years, and he was accompanied by British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden.
At the famous Meuse-Argonne Cemetery in France, the first Armistice Day service since 1939 was held at the spot where more than 14,000 American dead of World War I are buried.
WACs attend services
American soldiers and WACs whose fathers and relatives fought there in 1917 attended the ceremonies.
These ceremonies called attention to the thousands of American dead of this war buried overseas. U.S. combat casualties of World War II have already exceeded those of the other war, now totaling 509,195. American losses in World War I were 364,800.
Edward N. Scheiberling, national commander of the American Legion, said in an Armistice Day message that the men who are fighting this war must take an active part in securing a lasting peace so that their victory will not be sacrificed “on the altar of political expediency and public indifference.”
Pledge broken, he says
America broke its promises to its Unknown Soldier and his comrades of the last war, he asserted.
James F. Byrnes, director of war mobilization, speaking in Columbia, South Carolina, said America and other peace-loving nations must not again fail to realize that “nations like individuals cannot live alone.”
Byrnes said:
Let us on this Armistice Day… pledge to those who made the supreme sacrifice in the last war and those who are making the supreme sacrifice in this war that we shall banish the scourge of war from this earth.
Allied troops in Rome marched past a reviewing stand erected below Benito Mussolini’s Palazzo Venezia in an Armistice Day parade reviewed by the Allied commanders of the Rome area.
In liberated French and Belgium towns, U.S. combat troops joined Belgian and French civilians and soldiers in ceremonies honoring the dead of each nation.
Ceremonies in Britain were few and simple in Westminster Abbey, where the Tomb of Britain’s Unknown Soldier in located.
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