Now that France is herself again obvious questions are raised
regarding the future of two admirable publications which in the past four years have secured a recognised place in the journalistic life of London—the daily France, edited by M. Pierre Comert, and the monthly La France Libre, directed by M. Andre Labarthe. La France Libre, I rejoice to learn, is to remain as it is and where it is. Nothing could be better ; its role as a link and an interpreter between the French and British peoples is of the utmost value. France, it is hoped, will become a weekly. That, again, is a wise decision. There is not sufficient clientele to support a French daily in London when the French exiles have gone home, but a weekly should be widely read. There will be a new editor, for M. Comert is naturally enough ieturning to his own country, and a well-known London publisher is interesting himself in the paper's prospects. British officialdom, I am told, is for some inexplicable reason making the transition of France from a daily to a weekly difficult.
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