FRANCE: Impossible to Conceal

Thirty leading U. S. dailies have been studied carefully in recent weeks by French Socialist Party Leader Leon Blum.

He discovered, he told the Chamber of Deputies last week, that out of every 100 lines of foreign news printed by these papers 31 lines have been about Germany, 22 about Britain, 18 about Russia & Finland, seven about Italy, six about Japan & China and five about France.

"The responsibility for this sad state of affairs," charged M. Blum, rests with French censorship, "which holds back news too long! What makes this stupidity even worse is that France is not, as...

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