“MISERABLE, DIRTY”
RUSSIAN AIRMEN’S IDEA OF FRANCE BY NO MEANS ENAMOURED
Azistralian and N.Z. Press Association) Reed. Noon. PARIS, Thursday.
The two Russian airmen who recently visited France in the course of the European tour of the airplane Wings of the Soviet, appear not to be enamoured of France and the French. One of them, writing in a Moscow newspaper, says France is miserable, dirty, and behind the times. Even the policemen who welcomed the plane at Le Bourget were shockingly dirty. A gendarme who examined the Russians’ papers had his moustache full of bread-crumbs and smelt shockingly of drink. Every day something was stolen from the machine. “After a visit to the Chamber of Deputies, I got the impression that the deputies were, in appearance, like little bankers, with prominent stomachs and doubtful linen,” the writer said.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 773, 20 September 1929, Page 9
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138“MISERABLE, DIRTY” Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 773, 20 September 1929, Page 9
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