At Colmar, in Alsace-Lorraine, a beady-eyed French lawyer stuck out his right forefinger, wagging it before the broad, shiny nose of an Alsatian priest, the Abbe Haegy. "Ha!" snorted the lawyer, "look me in the eye! Look into the eyes of a Frenchman, M. l'Abbé, and tell me if you will not shout with me 'VIVE LA FRANCE!'"
For a long moment the Abbe Haegy hesitated. He owns several newspapers whose policy looks toward the eventual autonomy of Alsace. He had brought this suit against Le Journal of Paris for libelously aspersing...
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