FRANCE: Beyond Paris

Last March while receiving Leland Stowe, the New York Herald Tribune's Paris correspondent, at the White House, President Roosevelt leaned back in his chair, flicked an ash from his cigaret and remarked that Paris was not France and that it was a pity the U. S. public did not hear more about the doings and opinions of the French provinces. A platitude when it comes from the President of the U. S. often sounds like a command. Correspondent Stowe went back to Paris and climbed into a car to tour the chief cities...

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