Evening star., 1935-06-23
BY FERDINAND TUOHY.

TIME "Boul Niche" resounds 10
anti-foreign demonstrations.
France for the French!"
i scream the banners of Sor-
bonne students, up in arms against
further invasion of the liberal" pro-
fessions by aliens who, having studied
in France and absorbed her culture
desire to make their lives and future
incomes there.
The last straw was the further in
tellectuo- Jewish incursion from the
Saar. Particularly is medicine over
crowded; French medical students,
seeing scant chance of jobs for them
selves unless swarming foreign com
petitors are barred from practicing
in France, have been in the van OF
the xenophobia, even to the extent
Of laying hands on the unwanted ones.
This Latin Quarter effervescing rep
resents the more blatant side OF ma
wide with-the-foreigner urge
that finds outlet in those six staples
of French atriculation-the cafe, the
banquet, the boulevard press, the cab
aret, the cartoon and the tribune.
Though the fact is met by strenuous
denial (as tending to raise doubts
concerning the republics much-vaunt-
ed claim to being the worlds foyer
Of hospitality, the sextet is hard at 1t.
One Glass Only Attacked.
There is no doubt that the clamor
corresponds to the sentiment Of the
country as a whole but only in
relation to one class of foreigner! Re-
duced to a sentence, the position re-
solves itself into this: Whereas the
French are chronically unable to come
by the type Of foreigner they would
fain welcome with open arms-the
spending tourist-they are being suf-
located by the presence on the domes-
tic labor market of nearly million
imported aliens while almost as many
French nationals are looking for work.
M. Dupont (the n an in the street,
rather irrationally figures 1t out that
you have only got to expel the i'm
mense foreign horde, and give their
places to French men and women. in
order to solve the nations very grave
unemployment problem. M. Dupont
overlooks the fact that French ma
tionals are not necessarily out of the
particular jobs the aliens are in-that
in the majority of cases foreign work
ers are doing work that Frenchmen
either cannot or will not do.
Meanwhile, an international prob
lem of first-class consequence is posed.
And while we can all sympathize with
France in her dilemma, the indispu-
table fact remains that II the French
are in a pretty pickle today over the
stranger. they have largely themselves
to blame. In addition to hospitality
and reason, France also claims con-
siderable monopoly of the word mesure
moderation. There can seldom have
been a more glaring instance of lack
of moderation than over this matter
of the imported foreigner.
Tourist Industry CollapseS.
Frances tourist industry, which used
to be the fourth in the country, has
collapsed. Whereas in 1927. the peak
year, 2,125,000 foreigners entered
France on pleasure bound, last year
the figure had sunk to 100000. OF
these, moreover, a considerable num-
Der were just passing through en- route
for other European destinations, and
many of the others were nothing more
than week-enders darting over from
neighboring lands.
Causes of this eclipse can be stated
briefly. The generalization Of the
franc; coupled with the high cost OF
things apart even from the rate OF
exchange, Of course dominates mat
ters. But important also is the fact
that half q dozen countries, including
Germany, Italy, Poland, Czechoslo-
vakia and Spain, have as good as de-
creed a boycott of France by their
nationals, who may take only inflni-
tesimal vacation sums with them.
These nations demand numerical reci-
procity of tourists with France-but
the French so rarely travel.
Tourists apart, there has also been
an exodus of foreign residents. AS
case in point, there were nearly $4,000
American sojourners a few years ago.
The total is now $4,000, and the ma
jority Of these are holding down jobs.
The erich American" is as rare. al
most, as a salmon in the Sahara. Or
take the South Americans who used
to spend so much. The loss has been
even greater here. Whereas there had
been a maximum Of 10000, now but a
paltry 2,500 remain.
This sweeping departure Of the for
eign resident links W with the major