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Message to the Lafayette-Marne Day Committee.

September 06, 1932

[Released September 6, 1932. Dated September 1, 1932]

THE COINCIDENCE of Lafayette's birthday and the anniversary of the battle of the Marne annually evokes in all American hearts a warm response of sentiment to these two names, each of which is a symbol of liberty.

HERBERT HOOVER

[Mr. Maurice Leon, 44 Wall Street, New York City]

Note: The Marquis de Lafayette, a French officer who served during the American Revolutionary War, was born on September 6, 1757.

The first Battle of the Marne began on September 6, 1914, in France, during World War I.

Herbert Hoover, Message to the Lafayette-Marne Day Committee. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/207451

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