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Ry Edna M. Truc Travel Editor Note: Tis is the second of a series of articles written by Mrs. True describig a tour of Europe conducted by lier for a. group' of Amnericans. The intr4cductory article appeared 'in last week's iÈsue, Disembarkingat Havre on July 10, we drove through. Normanfdy alông, the coast, through ipictunesque Hon- fleur, fashionable, Deuville, to Dives, from which Port William the Norman hadt set sail for his conquest of Eng- land in 1066;, Caen, which 'was later a favorite residence of the Conqueror, and where he now lies buried (in the Abbey, built by, his onden, ,simultane- ously With the; "Abbaye aux Dames" founded by his wife., Matilda);, and, finally, to Mont St. Michel, for a visit tO its famous Abbey, superbly set on the summit of an lsolated granite cone,* rising some 260 feet above the medieval wails and towers encirciing the quaint village .at ils base. 'Visit Ec1ice.IiewtFrdrtres Historicaliy, as well as architec- turally, this shrine of the Archangel Michael is justly. considered> one of the flnest of the ancient monuments of France-in itseif weil wonth a journey across the ocean. Its lofty walls and immense buttresses, flank- ing the micdle tower and spire, com-. bined with its advantageous position on the veny top of the granite rock, m~ade it impregnable agairist attack, and accounted for the important part it played throughout the Middle Ages anfd weUl down into the Seventeentih *- Century. Celebrated as a place of pilgrimage and later as a seat. of iearning, the shrine was the recipient of rich bestowals by kings of both Engiand and France andin its deý- veIopment took on the character of an ecciesiastical fortress. We were interested to recali that here Henry I of England had effectiveiy resisted his two eider brothers and that laten, in 1166, Henry II kept his Court at' Mont St. Michel, recéeiing. here thé, F rom World Trip Oscar L.. Moore, 305 Ridge ýave- nue, Winnetka, .deplaned. from a United Air Lines Mainliner at the Chicago Municipal airort early this week ,after an'around-the-worid va- cation air flight that consisted prin- cipaiiy. of running aa rmthe war. Mr. Moore, who.is a.,research ex- pert for the Trade Association Ex- ecutives in Chicago and Is past pres- ident of the American Trade Execu-I tives, ieft Chicago on, United Air 'bines on August 18'to start a vaca-, tion trip around the worid by, air. 1n London, Mr. Moore saw gas mask drills, air raid blackout re- hearsais and a nation stunned by tenews of the German-Russian 4rade 4pact,. £uso docide4 ihis vaca- tion might be more pleasant else- where. lHe left London just before the war broke. His luck remained good for the rest of his air flight across Europe to Africa; Asia and the Far East and he got through to Hong Kong to catch the Pacifie Clipper for the United States on the iast plane to Smake the trip before the FEuropean hostilities disrupted the service. 1main stretches alona a high terrace.. overlooklng the winding River Seine, Iwith Sacre Coeur., the Eiffel Tower, and other such familiar iandmarks of Paris, dis cernible in the distance. We spent thisnight on the edge of the Bois, in a charrnlng hotel, one roomn of which was the scene of two his- torie events-the birth of France's Su~n King, Louis XIV; and the signing of the Treaty of St. Germain, after, the last war. In Old War Zone Our stay in Paris was to corne at the end of oun Continental tour, but 4Ayin7 z AvinenAAU Here we wene very conscious of the French army and the presence of officens, somne of very high.com- mande and later I was told by rny friend, the ,manager of our hotel, of the military, importance of: Nancy., manking* as ýit did one of the princi- pal entrances to the Maginot LUne, some 150 .kiiometrs. away. FroÏm here to Strasbourg, we were passIng through what couid, eaiiy 'becomne actual War Zone in the next confliet, and I noticed that, instead of the br ioad, stnaight milltany highways. of Germnany,. many, smnaller. ones, ail ini perfect- condition, extended to al parts, of this section. Concrete outiets to the underground fortifications. were very frequent in the fields, along which we were passlng-fields in which the hanvesting w as golng on as customiary. Strasbourg, as usual, was teemlng with people, ail golng abuttheïr 'daiy affairs, qute as though they were not living under the very guns of the Siegfried Line, or West Wall, as it is nw called. In Heart of War Area t was only. during a taik which I had with a friend of mine there that I saw for a moment the mask raised and a fleeting unguarded expression o! the dread-that was undôubtediy in. the hearts of ail who were abiding' there. Thnoughout his conversations with the others in my group, he was joking and seemingly free from con- <Continued on page' 24)., £EffiCiemf-because lastructor.bas bai ten years' teaching experlence au& is. weil trained, with Mdaster's flaire. frein the University of Michigan -because çlass. lu ,imtei >lI size s@ as to permit hulvidual Loctel Close to N. S. Statiton Lu Anderson. DAY. 1754 [ Allon Stahi PIANO Musical C@mposi.. 1430.sabIlqStreet WIhn.tp927-M Patronize Our Advertiwers June. T. 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