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Frenchmen noticed it, for the following day���s papers had room for nothing but Lindbergh). It was in the middle of the match that a messenger brought to the ambassador the news that Lindbergh had been sighted over Ireland. The ambassadorial party left the stadium in considerable disarray. But if Herrick had been slow to anticipate the event, from the moment that it occurred he reacted with all the skill of a practiced diplomat to turn Lindbergh���s personal exploit into a national triumph for the greater glory of the United States. At Le Bourget, the air���eld administration had been caught off balance like everybody else. I have purposely used the term air���eld rather than airport for to have called the Le Bourget of 1927 an airport would have been a considerable exaggeration. This was before the days of regularly scheduled passenger services. Le Bourget was used mainly by military planes, whose hangars occupied one end of the ���eld, while the civilian facilities, mostly for mail planes, were at the other. There were no runways���planes took off and landed on grass. The air���eld had never been called on to deal with any such situation as it met with now, and reports vary on its unreadiness when the test came. Many witnesses insist that though the beacon on Mont Val��rien, on the outskirts of Paris, had been lighted to guide Lindbergh to Paris, the landing lights at Le Bourget itself were not turned on until Lindbergh���s motor was heard overhead. There could have been considerable confusion on this point, for military planes landing at the far end of the ���eld had caused several false alarms. HYLAND 8