For Franco-American Amity.

New York Times 100 years ago today, October 27, 1912:
Society Formed to Strengthen Relations Between the Two Countries.
    ALBANY, Oct. 26.— The France-America Committee, Inc., with principal office in New York City, was incorporated to-day to develop and strengthen relations between the United States and France, and to act as the New York committee or correspondent of the France Amerique of Paris, France. The committee proposes, among other things, to encourage the sending of Americans to France and of Frenchmen to the United States.
    The Directors are Robert Bacon, Joseph H. Choate, Nicholas Murray Butler, John H. Finley, W. K. Vanderbilt, J. P. Morgan, Jr., John Claflin, A. Barton Hepburn, William D. Guthrie, Edward Robinson, Whitney Warren, George Foster Peabody, W. A. Clark, Robert W. de Forest, Frederick R. Coudert, McDougal Hawkes, Warren L. Green, Paul Fuller, Jr., New York; Henry White, Washington; Henry van Dyke and John Greer Hibben, Princeton, N. J.