chief in the French naval reserve.
The distinguished visitor resides in Paris where he presides over the home office of the Penhoet shipyards of St. Nazaire. Until eight years ago, he resided in St. Nazaire where he was active head of the yards which have built such noted French liners as the Ile de France, the Paris, the Champlain and the Lafayette as well as many cruisers and battleships for the French navy.
Mr. Levy is of old French stock. Ase he pointed out himself, when the interviewer turned the conversation to Judaism, “my father, my grandfather and my great-grandfather were French.” They, however, were not shipbuilders.
The visitor stated that there is no Jewish problem in France, no special discriminations against Jews and that all French Jews are Frenchmen first.
He was accompanied to this country by his wife.
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