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...well-meaning person smuggled a single bunch of violets onto the bier, last week, and they were not disturbed. But there was no music in the Embassy. And there were only, two women-Mme. Salambier, long the Ambassador's social secretary, and his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Parmely Herrick. The other 400 persons who jammed to suffocation the largest room in the Embassy were all men, clad in formal mourning...
...Herrick," purred Count Quiñones, "like other great statesmen who refused to subscribe to that deep-rooted greed which makes duplicity and deceit the best weapons of diplomacy, never employed any other resources than those which translated his most intimate sentiments, namely, sincere affability, loyal frankness and perfect cordiality...
...Star-Spangled Banner." In taking leave of Ambassador Herrick in the name of all Frenchmen, Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré saluted, "that fine and good man . . . who leaves in our memory an image which nothing can destroy!" Movingly the grizzled "Lion of Lorraine" described again how Mr. Herrick came to him in 1914, when the Germans were all but at the gates of Paris...
...conclusion the Prime Minister gratefully recalled that Mr. Herrick always "sought with gentle obstinacy solutions compatible with French interests," adding, "Ambassador Herrick regarded the achievement of Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh as crowning the work to which he himself was wholly devoted...
...Tens of thousands of men and women* have been saying in these last sad days 'Mr. Herrick was my friend.' I can but repeat their thought with heartfelt gratitude. He was my friend [very huskily] just as he was theirs...