THE BOOK OF FRANCE

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 136, 30 August 1927, Page 13

THE BOOK OF FRANCE

GIFT TO BRITAIN “FROM FRIENDS TO FRIENDS” (British Official Wireless. — Copyright) RUGBY, Sunday, particulars are available of the ■Book of France,” with which Sir fasten Chamberlain will be presented at the Paris Hotel De Ville next Wednesday. The book, which is a magnificent relume, is an epitome of the history of France, and is in only one copy. It contains the dedication in Latin, “From friends to friends, in memories of {lories in common.” The preface, written by M. Briand, e: presses the hope that the concord founded by the two great nations upon tleir common sacrifice will endure as long as the world lasts. President Poincare has also written a preface, in which he says: “The french men and women who have taken initiative in preparing this book have only responded to the gracious and friendly attention shown by the cities of Great Britain toward Prance when the war broke out. M. Poincare states that proof has been giren during the years that have since elapsed that the entente is unalterable. “Great Britain and France cannot always have the same opinion on the manner of carrying out peace treaties, but their differences have never disturbed a friendship which heart and reason have combined in maintaining, it has not been in vain that the two nations have fought side by side for a sacred cause. Remembrance of the blood that they shed for the common safety has created between them indissoluble ties.”

Other dedications have been contributed by M. Millerand, a former President of the Republic, M. Clemenceau, and the Marshals of France —Foch, Joffre, Retain and Lyautey. A. and N.Z.