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PARIS PAPER’S PROVOCATIVE EDITORIALS. “Le' Jour” has recently been suspended' for ten days. It apparently refuses to be sufficiently docile. Some of its recent editorials have been surprisingly provocative. It had the audacity in one to praise the merits of taking risks. Under the title “Risquer” (Risk) it wrote: —
“The history of those peoples and persons who have succeeded is made up of risks deliberately accepted. To risk sometimes leads to ruin. Not to risk infallibly leads to decadence, often to misery. Only the strong know how to take risks. The mediocre never take a risk. That is why they are mediocre, and remain mediocre. . . . “To risk is to be a Nelson leaving his line of battle and throwing his ship athwart the enemy, as at Cape St. Vincent, or putting his telescope before his blind eye at Copenhagen. “Let France not lose the taste, the need, for taking risks.” The allusion to the British Admiral Nelson was certainly not one likely to please Vichy or the Nazi masters. The whole leader, in fact, was a subtle invitation to revolt. The appearance of such a leader is all the more significant as “Le Jour” was notoriously antiBritish, from its owner to every member of its staff.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 March 1942, Page 4
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208TAKE RISKS Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 March 1942, Page 4
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