The French Government, I see, has instituted proceedings against various
well-known journalists, including Madame Tabouis, M. Andre Geraud (Pertinax) and M. Henri de Kerillis. All of them, fortunately, are outside the French Government's jurisdiction, two of them a very long way out- side. I had a long talk last week with Pertinax, who, with his wife, got away from Bordeaux at the last moment with nothing but what they could carry in three suit-cases. He hopes to be able to do something by pen and speech in the United States to counteract the propaganda which the Main Government will certainly endeavour to carry on there on the approved German model. Ironically enough, the last issue of the American quarterly Foreign Affairs, which reached me this week, contains a long article by Pertinax on Anglo-French Union as the basis of the structure of the new Europe. But plenty of articles written six weeks ago look just as melancholy.
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