Mr. W. R. Hearst's Expulsion from France
Mr. William Randolph Hearst, the well-known American newspaper proprietor, was deported front France on Monday. The French Prime Minister's Office stated that Mr. Hearst's expulsion was due to his responsibility for the theft and publication of a secret document about the Anglo-French Naval Compromise. The Paris corres- pondent of the Times says; however, that the French Government were also influenced by the recent publication in the Hearst newspapers of articles demanding the revision of the Peace Treaties. This second reason, if it exists, is much less defensible than the first. Mr. Hearst, who is now in London, has been an inter- national mischief-maker on many occasions, and one never knows what he will do next, as he changes from abuse to almost affectionate offers of friendship with miraculous Suddenness. It is fair to say, however, that his comments on his deportation from France are marked by restraint and humour. "I told them that I did not want to endanger the great French nation ; that America had saved it during the War, and that I would save it again by leaving." Perhaps Mr. Hearst remembered the remark invented by Mark Twain for the French duellist, "I
die that France may live." * * * *
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