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Show American journalism is indebted to M. Paul Blouet ("Max O llell) for a few frank "words he has uttered iu his new volume, "A Frenchman in America." Of recent years certain foreigners of distinction, and others only distinguished distin-guished for their vulgar abuse of hospitality, hos-pitality, have seen fit, once they were landed safely on the other side the water, to berate the American newspaper news-paper reporters who sought to interview inter-view them. Says M. Blouet: What nonsense Europeans have written on the subject of interviewing in America, to bo sure! To hear them speak, you would believe that it'is the greatest nuisance in the world. A Frenchman French-man writes in the Fhjaro : '! will go to America if my life can bo insured against that terrilic nuisance, nuis-ance, interviewing."' An Englishman, writes to an English paper, on returning from America: ''When the reporters called on me, I invariably refused to see them." Trash! Cant! Hypocrisy! With the exception of a king, or the prime minister minis-ter of one of the great powers, a man is only too glad U bo interviewed. I consider that interviewing is a compliment, a great compliment paid to the interviewed. I maintain that American interviewers are extremely courteous end obliging, and us a rule, very faithful reporters report-ers of what you say to them. Let me say that I, have a lurking doubt in my mind whether those whq have so much to say against interviewing j'n Amtrica have ever been asked to be interviewed at aiy or have eer even run nch a danger. |