TIME
The French press, always on the alert for new manifestations of German guile, ” discovered ” through the newspaper Liberté that the Germans are disseminating anti-French propaganda among British and American tourists through Spanish, Italian, Greek, English, German guides in Paris. According to Liberte, tourists at Versailles hear tirades against the Treaty of Versailles; tourists on the battlefields hear of the valor of the German troops. Liberté asserts that guides tear up Allied flags in the cemeteries and sell strips as souvenirs. Thus ” Papa Poincaré ” has another German menace to combat.
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