European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 22, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Right  former Premier Ramaier to american legion ceremony expatriate by Francis Chase a. I. Ashington Opp Dean of the american Colony in Paris has for More than 50 years worked for the Mutual interest of both America and france1 \ a Hen american troops were x a pushing towards Paris in the summer-j19j4, French officials booked High Androw for & Large Amer. Dean Flag to Jely from the Eiffel  it was. Not until the actual Day of Liber. Action arrived and de Gaulle himself asked for an american Flag that Valery Oela Dout minister of health snapped his fingers  memory dulled in the sex _ Treme excitement suddenly clicked. ". .,i., " a but of course a he .shouted, would have one and he id. T-,--7 it was typical of George washingtonian up one of the oldest american exec Patria Tes living in France 4hat he was Able to produce the Flag so fitting to the v i  although he has lived in r Paris since 1695 and become one of the City s Large property owners he has continued to look upon himself As a typical run of the Miu .american.,he in t alone in this View. To hundreds of collections of Jade an Crystal How he the son. Of a livery stable owner in Washingtond-.c.came-to Settle in Europe and to  crowned Heads of Europe to dance in a Day when  Many More crop Ned Heads than _  is a Short Chunky Man a  by five who walks with a Sway ing stride that resembles a Duck s Waddle with a bulldog Gish manner  be. Associated with a football line up than the dance. His voice is hoarse and harsh so that it is difficult to imagine. Him singing As he do in a Church choir in. His youth or in his Early twenties doing minor roles with old or. Dam Rosch s american opera company until a Throat ailment wiped out his Proni Ising baritone voice. � Steps state Andolf 1 1 scially those Nur Hose troubles them to his door he Jur assumed the. Serln2j " York and persuaded am my. I. A . I there followed a period of Vaga Fig of teaching in san Diego and his dancing Academy one might modestly speak of As my capital the Prospect of starving in a Garreton the left Bank despite its theatrical Quality was wholly unattractive. I am not , the Caulle  so one night at a reception Given by the Duchess of Marlborough he found himself Felling u. S. Ambassador eustis.,.-a�   in Paris. T1 ambassador. Eustis whose social obligations took him dancing six eve v rings a week and who thought that , -toa., Many people in. Paris knew How to dancer was Cool i you Are carrying coals to Newcastle Lopp he warned. A but i have better Coal was Lopps rejoinder. Within a week he was ". Teaching dancing to the daughters of _. Baron Rothschild and whether his Coal. Was better or worse it burned with a Star like flame and at the rate of $100per hour. Within a year he was Busy erecting on the Rue Magellan his Vash  Palace Assort of composite of ",.- Sherry s and Delmonico is which became ground Anthe inst Irace a have made frequent use of his intimate knowledge of France and the French  French too regard him asa1 sort of american plenipotentiary no while ambassadors come and go �.�. "�,"-."� faxes permanently with them in Good times " Aris a a land a a Job teaching the i Art bad. The remember his work in and other american Folk. Hospital zing. Lovely and wholly immoral baggage and one time owner of the Hope Diamond. In1902-falling upon = lean times which forced her to offer the ointments to the French legion Honor Are made to americans without _ prior consultation with Lopphe  Man of causes and the French remember Jim res the prime mover  of the american Hospital a Neuilly and of the foundation Foche i at Monte Valerian As the driving Force sold All of them to Lopp  sex. Caption of the Silver Bathtub in which it is said the lady preserved her. Beau by a strange sequence of Champagne. And milk and Honey.  organization of the american ambulance corps which in two wars Only enough to pay for my tiny room served the French army Opp likes to recall ,-.sittmg Jwj his exquisitely furnished apartment on the Hue de la Boete among priceless 10 a rup Emder eaves of the grand hotel while the Money a spent keeping up with the rothschilds liter ally was lopping great chunks off what look Back with amusement upon these earlier Day i found myself suddenly the Arthur Murray of Paris. By Royal command went to Madrid to teach King Alphonse and the Royal  r to improve the terpsichore an talents of. The _ Bey of Tunis to Luxembourg where the Archduke was sold on all1 things americanand-then Benet mrs. W. K. Vander bilt Lewis Twyford in putting Raj american ambulance corps into Ttoe Field just As he was to work a Quarter Century later with Ann Morgan to the same end. Throughout the first Battle of the Marne he drove an ambulance g until he was pulled Back to organize if an american Hospital which was later \ to grow into the american Hospital of Paris. In this Hospital which owes its beginnings almost entirely to Lopp s efforts grafting of Bones and flesh Asa common practice of military Mediti Nej was begun. 1as the Miracle of such a Hospital full blown and functioning in a mat of months became apparent Tore of cult assignments in the War i were Given Himmost-Gargantuan these was tie organization of the Poi Bordeaux be Havre and Marseilles through which american supplies supposed to flow to the allies but v had actually become great dogged bottlenecks spelling defeat. He soon i these Supply lanes functioning but work at the ports caused a bitter Quarry of with general Pershing. A belting the ports to functioning,1. Lopp rec aued one afternoon at his Hor not Long ago i had received the great f Aid from some of America s top Railroad men so when the minister War.askedjme-to recommend key figures for dec oration by the French i naturally named Atterbury  other raft go Toad men. I " a Well unbeknown to me r he haucalso.asked-Pershing to make up a list and Pershing h sted Only -. The Milit. .figures., e French accepted my i " and although from then till the end of a the War i was constantly in touch wita3 Pershing he refused of talk with Mel except  .".-". " Lopp Drew out two pieces of Crystal from Baccarat of an Lledo them with a rare Napoleon Brandy the glasses you Are drinking 1 he Snaidr were a gift Froit Pershing just 4iefore he went ,1you-see, i heard that the general in the Hospital with influenza selected bottle of their Sajnaj you re drinking now put it under a pm and went a Down to  with him. With Victory at hand a actg of a Jack grinned sheepishly Brand held his hand after a it Opp he tolds then we re All civilians at heart � similar quarrelhe�ad3iadwith continued