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VISIT OF PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON TO BELGIUM, JUNE 18, 1919 Reel 1 · Part 2
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Reel 1, King Albert and Queen Elizabeth greet the Wilsons at Andenkerque. They inspect rubble in Nieuport, landmarks in Ypres (with Amb. Whitlock), and shattered breakwaters of the Zeebrugge Canal; eat a picnic lunch; and greet villagers in Thourout and Blankenberghe. Reel 2, the party inspects German-stripped factories in Charleroi; meets Herbert Hoover, Bernard Baruch, Norman Davis, and Vance McCormick in Brussels; and drives through Malines. Wilson is given a degree at the Univ. of Louvain.
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