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The article focuses on the account of a pilgrimage by Major John H. Lay in search for the French people who sheltered his brother Lieutenant Colonel Beirne Lay, Jr. He shares the time he spent inquiring from village to village. When Major Lay describes the reaction of the family to the presents he gave including a box of American chocolates, a pound of tobacco, candy bars, writing papers, and flints.

The article comments on an advertisement in the New York Times that appeared on November 31, 1938 for the newspaper The Daily Worker. The ad announced the coverage of a French workers' strike by Daily Worker reporter Harold R. Jefferson, and the best understanding of the strike will be in his columns. The editors remark that this was the only time they agreed with the Communist paper.