AMERICAN WAR BRIDES

Evening Star, Issue 19408, 17 November 1926, Page 10

AMERICAN WAR BRIDES

FRANCE HAS 5,000. PARIS, October 31. Thirty thousand American Legionnaires, arriving in France next year, in addition to the French officials and war veterans, ■ will be welcomed by 5,000 ladies. These ladies constitute a body of abandoned French wives, mothers, and children of former members of the American expeditionary forces, according to investigations conducted throughout France by the American Consulate and American Aid Society of Paris. Many of these women applied to the Aid Society for assistance, since the French Government, owing to the fact that they were American citizens, refuses succor. Most .of those who are legally wedded to American soldiers are unable to speak English and unable to raise funds to follow their husbands to America. According to the Aid Society these women are banding together, and will present to the American Legion Convention at Paris next year a demand that something be done to render them financial aid if the legion is not willing to undertake the matter of looking up the individual war veterans who abandoned the French women, and force them personally to do the right thing by the “ war brides.”