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I hope the suggestion made by M. Giraudeux and sup- ported by Dr. Ernest Barker for the issue of an Anglo-French postage stamp is not going to be lost sight of. Symbols mean a good deal, especially in war-time, and a symbol that would come before the eyes of both Englishmen and Frenchmen whenever they wrote a letter (though I suppose that in fact the stamp might not be available for all uses) would have a currency that would give it special value. That value would be very much increased if the stamp was used to signalise the introduction of tzd. post for letters to France, and something corresponding the other way. If we can send letters to New York for ild.—and the institution of that arrangement had other than purely commercial motives—we can certainly afford economically to send them to Paris for the same amount. I hope Major Tryon will be vigorously questioned on this point when Parliament opens—unless indeed he anti- cipates questioning by action. That would be better still. Anglo-French unity is worth demonstrating as well as achieving.
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