A Modern Cassandra

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23618, 30 March 1940, Page 6 (Supplement)

A Modern Cassandra

I AST yenr in London I met the most publicised woman in Knropo, says our Special Correspondent. Madame (Jenevieve Tahouis might lie cm I led "the modern Cassandra," when one considers her prophecies about the disasters which have overwhelmed Kurope. She is short and very slight, with silver grey hair brushed back in smooth waves Imm a broad brow, and blue eyes sunk deep in her pale, I iglitlv-dra wn face. Madame Tahouis, political correspondent of L'Oeu vre, was the jruest at one of the famous Kovle literary luncheons at Hrosvenor House, when she declared that international all'airs could only reach a peaceful solution with the declaration of a Three Power Pact between England, France and Russia. At this luncheon, as always, she ate very little and drank only water. After she had finished talking she picked up a dry biscuit and nibbled it while she listened to votes ol thanks. Slut looked as if she had already begun to plot out her next article lor L'Oeuvre in her mind. She began her career as a political correspondent when a young girl. Today she works in her Hat in the I'lace Malslierbes, in Paris, which is large enough to house her and her husband, I heir son and daughter and her mother. The flat is a typically French establishment. Two of the rooms have been turned into an office, and there Madame Tahouis works with two secretaries, dictating, reading proofs, preparing

Famous French War Prophetess

articles, speeches, radio talks. Night and day she holds long telephone conversations with personages in every capital city iu Furnpc—people whom the average journalist only sees from the press staml on a procession route. She collects and silts her information, and lin aMy produces findings which many people have found inconveniently near the truth. And she believes that her life is always in danger because of these inconvenient truths.