BONDS OF FRIENDSHIP
FRENCHWOMAN'S MISSION
In the effort, to strengthen tho bonds of friendship between the peoples of Franco and. Britain, a young Frenchwoman, Miss Lilian Day, id making an amazing crusade throughout' the latter country (states- an exchange). She is out to make eighty million people lovo each other. ' Miss Day speaks to everyone, busdrivers and conductors, taximen, workmen in the streets, women shoppers, housewives, and children. She talks to thenf aIL
"My mission is to create a better understanding between our- two countries," Miss Day said lately. Her dark eyes gleamed with enthusiasm as she 6pokc. . ( "For reo years I have lived in England," she said, "and I love the country and its people. . 1 also know and lovo France and the. French people, but the two people neither, know nor understand each other. Tfiat is what I am out to remedy. -. ■ "I speak to everyone I meet. The men usually say, 'Oh, yon are French;' That gives me the opening I want, and I tell them what the real French people are like. It is terrible that such closo neighbours should know so little of each other." v
Miss Day has received letters from all over tho country wishing her success in her mission. She has been invited to most of the.southern seaside resorts and to many of the northern cities to carry her mossage farther afield.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 65, 14 September 1933, Page 15
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BONDS OF FRIENDSHIP
Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 65, 14 September 1933, Page 15
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