Note 10 — VI Poison Gas or Fresh Air

Last year, the Journal des Débats was sold to a banker and an ironmaster (the former is Baron Edouard de Rothschild), both of whom hold strong views on the revalorisation of the franc. The London Daily Chronicle, in which the controlling interest had previously been held by Mr. Lloyd George, passed at the end of 1926 into the control of another Liberal group, and into the ownership of a company of which Lord Reading is the chairman. Some months earlier, the Government of the German Reich acquired the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, which had been acquired by the Prussian Government the previous year.