FRENCHMEN FIRST

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17526, 22 July 1931, Page 8

FRENCHMEN FIRST

NO PAID POSTS FOR FOREIGNERS Two years ago Mr. Gordon Troup, son of Mr. O. A. Troup, of Wellington, then a college master in Ohristchurch, was appointed manager-secretary of the Students' Christian Union Hostel in Paris. The movement has a great backing in the Old World and America, and the Paris hostel is a. pivotal centre in Elur6pe for the students of all nations. It is regarded as having great potential value in world affairs, owing to the friendships formed between students of different nations and that understanding which is derived from personal daily contact in the atmosphere of learning. News has now been received thai Mr. Troup has been compelled to resign his position in Paris, and left England by the Ormonde on Saturday for Sydney, en route to New Zealand, where he should arrive about the end of next month.

lb seems that as an emergency measure the French Government, has enacted that no foreigner must hold a paid position in France, on account of the unemployment in that country. Possibly had Mr. Troup registered his agreement when ho first took up the duties, he would have obtained the permission of the French Minister of La!x>r to remain in Paris, but he did not do so, never contemplating such a drastic change. Mr. Troup was offered the chargo of a new student-s' hostel in London, but preferred to return to New Zealand. He is to take up a position on the stall' of the Cathedral Grammar School, Christchurch.