EUROPE’S GUARDIANS.
FRANCE AND BRITAIN. FRIENDS WHO QUARREL. LONDON, April 25. The Paris press regards the visit of the King and Queen as a further proof of their innate courtesy and friendship towards France. Le Figaro says: “The French and British peoples seem prodigiously inclined troth to quarrel and to understand each other —to quarrel because they have divergent temperaments, habits and anxieties, to understand because their common civil, isation and relations have resulted in making them inseparable companions. “As guardians of Europe’s body they have constant disputes, which are sometimes bitter,- but as soon as a storm threatens they come together. Each would he distressed if deprived of the company of the other. “Since the* Conservatives have returned to power in Britain, the divergencies have not disappeared; but the comradeship of the two countries has acquired the most positive warmth.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 8 May 1925, Page 9
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