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compartment and sitting
up all night. This from
Tarante, but Carl has
just come in saying that
we will have 1st class
places reserved to Paris
from here, arriving to-
morrow night. The things
that we have perpetrated
as American officers in
our travels may well
establish a reputation
for American efficiecy.
Being merely privates in fact,
we have been given prefer-
ence over French officers
in some cases. For instance
in our stopovers at Liverno
& here, no Frenchmen
were allowed to leave the
station, but we paraded
to the best hotels and