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Following attendance at pontifical mass in St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York on Feb. 28, 1943, one hundred sailors from the French battleship Richelieu were guests at the Cathedral Canteen, 17 East 51st Street. On their way across the street for their quotas of coffee, tea or milk and pastry, the French seamen were cheered by this elderly woman, shown waving a tri-color flag and crying 'Vive La France.'

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