AN ADOPTED SON OF AMERICA 



"I like the American soldiers. They have come to protect my country. And I like espe- 

 cially my god-fathers," says Andre Claudel, a ten-year-old orphan who has been adopted by 

 a number of army field clerks in France. Andre's mother died a year ago and his father was 

 killed in the Argonne. He is a serious-minded little French boy and one of the best students 

 in the refugee colony at Caen. Many French orphans have been adopted by American troops, 

 and the American Red Cross administers the funds for their maintenance. 



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