Foreign News: Snobbisme

"Messieurs, what is it but snobbery—le snobbism epouvantable—which causes Frenchmen to buy foreign cars?" demanded Louis Renault, Dean of French motor makers, last week. "If foreign cars should come to dominate the French market, what a calamity! . . . To have lost a million and a half men in the war to escape German tutelage, only to fall under the tutelage of America! Mon Dieu that would be more than Frenchmen could bear! Tell these things to your readers—urge them to support the wise, the necessary law of M. Flandin." French reporters...

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