L'IDEE FRANCAISE A L'ETR ANGER STARTS A DARTMOUTH SECTION

A section of the American branch of L'Idee Francaise a L'Etranger, a society for French and American reciprocity in Commerce and Arts, was started in Hanover October 6, 1920, and officers elected as follows: Honorary presidents, President Ernest M. Hopkins and Professor Louis H. Dow; President George Raffalovich; Vice President, Professor William H. Murray; Treasurer, J. Claude Roule; and Secretary, Wesley R. Jones.

L'ldee Francaise a L'Etranger was constituted in Paris on November 20, 1915, at an assembly of influential statesmen, financiers, and eminent men of letters. Its purpose is the promotion of a better economic and intellectual understanding between the United States and France and a more general knowledge of French intellectual, artistic, industrial, and general business possibilities.

Special attention will be given to the placing of Young Americans in French Universities, commercial schools, business, financial and industrial institutions, and vice versa of young Frenchmen in this country.

The French committee includes Georges Leygues, President du Conseil des Ministres; J. Cruppi, Ancien Ministre; Raoul Perret, President de la Chambre des Deputes ; and Reynald, Senateur.