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Gallic Wit French pens and pencils continue to make fun of everything within reach, but there is a notable absence of highfalutin' sentiment about their own troops or of any attempt to depict the enemy as squealing cowards, says the London Times. The majority of contributors to the French Press today have been through the last war, and consequently there are few instances of the chauvinistic extravagance or puerile ignorance which in all countries produced such absurd results last time. Nor is there any nonsense about the troops liking war. The theme of fighting itself is nowhere treated as a joke, nor would the public permit it to be. It is realised that a stern Ordeal is ahead, and that stern resolution is the only thing with which to face it. But there are plenty of ancillary consequences of war to receive the full blast of Gallic wit, of which the censorship is naturally the chief.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20955, 7 November 1939, Page 6
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160TOPICS OF THE DAY Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20955, 7 November 1939, Page 6
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