Show FRANCE CALLS US SHYLOCK A 1 j 1 l 1 j J 1 s By MILTON BRONNER NEA Service Writer PARIS July We We Americans kid ourselves that tho French ought to be very grateful for all that we have done for them both during and after the war We think love awe made and ratified avery a n avery very very decent settlement of the debt France owes us Indeed we think we ve were quite generous about it But you d dont don't nt get that idea if you roam loam up and down the Parisian boulevards The Frenchman greatly great great- ly Iv annoyed and distressed by the constant fall in the value of ot the franc is Is' in no mood to be reason reason- able It is therefore not surprising to pick up one of aP the weekly sheets consumed on the boulevards and find an article entitled simply Shylock You guessed it The Tho sheet means us An And l h here re is the way out out- France France if our precious parliament parliament parliament parlia parlia- ment ratifies the Mellon Berenger agreement binds itself fo 0 o pay to its ex ex ally ally that it saved even as Jt t saved itself seven seven billion billion dollars or orIn orIn orin In the present rate rate- of oP exchange 20 billions of francs One must not c cease se to put the these e monstrous figures b before fore the eyes of Frenchmen so that the sentiment of oP f disgust and revolt which is at the bottom of all our hearts hearts' comes to full ruB light and makes it impossible for our parliamentarians to vote for this monstrous agreement M. M De i Monzie ronzie one of or the French elder Ider statesmen was recalling a strange trance trip trim he took back in n 1913 he was undersecretary of or state for the llie mercantile marine He was going to Corsica on state business but a storm wrecked tho vessels vessel's machinery The ship drifted and the I j gers became g becam-g greatly alarmed v Onor One On vI of or them filed tiled a message In the wire- wire ess room saying Accident machinery to to ma Dont Don't know whether this turtle will ever bring us to land M. M I. I de Monzie l took command and ordered the captain to do his best to land some place no matter where He succeeded in reaching the Spanish island of Majorca The passengers had a a very agre agreeable able visit on this beautiful island while the machinery was repaired and then proceeded speedily to Corsica The most frightened passenger of all came up to de to thank him q or a n ve r voyage v Y H 0 Fine said the official I want to give you a little memento of the trip S So say saying ng he handed the man his radio message message No attempt had ever been I made to send it Everybody knows that Gabriele d' d is the greatest living Italian writer His ills romances and anti his poetry are already Italian classIcs classics classics class class- ics and many of them have been translated into all modern langu lan- lan gu gudges And ever everybody body knows that dAnnunzio has a very good opinion o himself Apropos of or which a French clubman clubman clubman club club- man recently told me a good story If Uis it-is it is not true true it ought to be An American enthusiast st sent dAnnunzio zio a letter He put no address on the envelope except this To the greatest poet In Italy The Italian post office department proudly tried to deliver it to dAnnunzio dAnnunzio dAn nunzio complimenting itself upon its perspicacity But what was their dismay when the poet coldly repulse It saying It It c cant can't nt be for me Otherwise it would simpy simply have been addressed To the greatest poet Copyright 1926 NEA Service Inc 6 |