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HARVARD STUDENT IN FRANCE WILL SOON FIGHT ON FRONT

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Latest communications from John C. Baker '42, who joined the French Foreign Legion early this fall, indicate that he will soon be placed with the American Division in the Maginot line. In the meantime, he said, he is spending most of his time "having the newspapers retract false statements about me."

Bakers last letter, which was addressed to John F. Seiberling '41, expressed uncertainty as to the exact date of his mobilization. "It's astoundingly difficult to convince the French government that they need any more men," Baker remarked.

Seiberling said that by this time Baker may be actually at the front, and pointed out that in the last war the Foreign Legion was the spearhead of many major offensives.

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