29 AUGUST 1941, Page 4

The London daily paper, France, the organ of Free Frenchmen

in England, completed its first year of existence on Tuesday, and I offer it well-deserved congratulations. It has been fortunate in its first editor, M. Pierre Comert, whom have known in different capacities for twenty years and none. When he was here as liaison officer in the last war, after haed been Berlin correspondent of Le Temps, a leading Lode° editor described him as the most genuinely Liberal Frenchman he had ever met. After the war he became the first Directs of the Information Section of the League of Nations, and la Chef de la Presse at the Quai D'Orsay. If France could becont a permanency after the war, when free communication la France is restored, it might play a very valuable part as err structor and interpreter. We shall need something like it bacill.

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