FRENCH IN EXILE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 September 1941, Page 3

FRENCH IN EXILE

DAILY PAPER PUBLISHED. BEST TRADITIONS MAINTAINED. The French in exile have their own daily newspaper, “France,” published I daily at Id. In its four pages it gives an extremely well presented review of the big news of the day, together with a leader and special articles. It is produced by highly qualified French journalists, and its political iireetor was well-known at Geneva mid later at the Quai d’Orsay in Paris, bvery line of it is interesting, even its lassified advertisements, and never could the term “agony column” be more accurately applied. The column contains pathetic appeals for news of dear ones last seen on the beach at Dunkirk or on some French battlefield or believed to have escaped from Naziridden France. (Incidentally the paper furnishes an economic and interesting means of polishing up one’s French). In addition to the daily paper, there is a very fine monthly review, “La France Libre.” While it gives an important place to the political events of France and the world, the larger part f its pages is devoted to the great questions of the day in the world of art, literature, music, philosophy and science and all those things which have ever held a place of honour in the intellectual life of a great country. “La France Libre” maintains the best traditions of French literature, and there is nothing comparable to it published in France today.