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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21236, 7 August 1934, Page 13

"' ■ i—» Eighteen trees have been presented to the American nation by the people of the Near East in gratitude for what America did for them after the war. They are cedars from the mountain forests of Lebanon, and are to be planted in the National Cemetery at Arlington. Before being sent off they were blessed by Sahag the Second, leader of the Armenian Church. Mrs Roosevelt presided at a ceremony accepting them on behalf of the American people. The trees range from 12in to 10ft high, : and it is hoped they will grow to 60ft or 80ft. The gift recalls the fact that the United States raised the huge 6um of £25,000,000 to aid the thousands in the Near East who were homeless owing to the war. The Americans dealt with 132,000 ; orphans and taught 60,000 children a trade.