Foreign News: Advice to Americans

Le Gaulois, Paris Journal, printed a code of behavior for the benefit of U. S. citizens visiting France. It might well have been headed What Every American Should Know. The satirical tone of the " advice" tendered is the result of the recent Negro excitements (TIME, July 9, Aug. 13, Aug. 20). The code is in part:

" The French are so proud they spend their time deprecating themselves in order to give you an opportunity to contradict them. Don't fail to do so.

" Don't think Montmartre is a rendezvous of the French. When...

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