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HEROES: Legion Retreats

Retiring Commander Howard Paul Savage and his band of good-will bearers rounded off the American Legion's reoccupation of Europe by visiting Belgium and Britain before retreating in good order for the U. S.

In Belgium. Good order was momentarily threatened at the palace gates in Brussels when 50 or so Legionaries and wives, who had read in Paris newspapers that King Albert was to receive the Legion, were refused admittance to the royal presence. Legionary Henry Brechner of Philadelphia, onetime pugilist, shouted, "I'll show you I'm as good as you are. I...

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