European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 11, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse                                France remembers a historic moment Many top officials to participate in ceremonies recalling armistice signing in comping be Forest by Don Walter staff writer the statue of marshal Ferdinand Foch still stands. France today relives a historic moment that took place 40 years again a rail car in the comping be Forest North of Paris. The president of the Republic Rene Coty. Will head the list of officials French and Allied who will participate in France s most important veterans Day Observance. Each year France recalls i to signing of the world War 1 armistice on nov. In 1918. In the Railroad car. And each year the veterans return to remember. Coty himself is a world War i Veteran having served As a private in the Douay Mont sector near Verdun. Each year however the number of veterans becomes fewer. The 40th anniversary probably will be the last of the major 10-year observances at the Cross roads of the armistice where a memorial has been built and the armistice car in  Ferdinand Foch received representatives of Germany to Issue the terms of the armistice at this site because it was about Midway Between the Anglo French Battle one and Paris. The allies sought a secluded spot so that the armistice could be conducted in private and with dignity. A Wagon lit pull Man Type car was specially equipped As a conference room and pulled to a rail siding at act hordes about 40 Miles North of Paris. After the armistice it was left there permanently and became a shrine for the French. In 1922 a shelter and museum were built around the car and a huge i a a of Concrete covered most of the Forest Clearing. There were memorial markers and a Large statue of Foch. Kach year on armistice Day the flame at the Tomb of the unknown Soldier in Paris was carried to the Crossroads to be re  world War ii when the germans overran France Hitler forced the French to sign an armistice in the same Railroad car which was later carted off to Berlin and destroyed. All evidence of the memorial was ruined except for the Foch statue which French patriots continued to decorate. Official ceremonies were resumed on armistice Day in 1944, when French and american soldiers took part. In 1948 Vincent Auriol then president of France presided at50th anniversary rites during which the rebuilt memorial was Rede i  now May see another armistice car although it is not. The original. If is identical in every detail to the famous coach of 1918, a replica furnished and equipped exactly As the Wagon lit car that made history on the first nov. 11. Monument Marks place of 1918 signing. Building houses museum. The original armistice car. It was destroyed by the nazis in 1940. Tuesday november 11, 1958 we stars and stripes Page it