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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 April 1942, Page 3

A French publication, recently received in London, reveals only too well the lamentable state of Paris, so different from the animated gay city the tripper knew. Ugly road signs in German mar every view. At the top of the Champs Elysees one of these disfigurements indicates the way to a dozen points of the capital where German authorities are lodged. Before the Opera ,one of these indication posts bears thirteen pointed signs, ten on one side and three on the other, with another post near it bearing four. The Rex, the big cinema on the Boulevards, bears in large letters “Deutsches Soldatenkino,” where German soldiers are film-fed with inanities and faked pictures. The Germans, ever poor psychologists, can never hope for colaboration or reconciliation by such clumsy disfiguring of a capital of art and beauty.