Verdant Asylum

Frenchmen know that there are too many Anglo-Saxons in France. So many that aristocratic Parisians are obliged to withdraw for privacy to the left bank of the Seine. So many that a Frenchman simply cannot escape them on the Riviera. Recently rich Louis Loucheur, not long since Minister of Finance (TIME, Dec. 7), decided to provide an asylum for Frenchmen in France, a retreat where open English vowels and nasal Yankee twangs would not affront the Latin ear.

Quietly, craftily, M. Loucheur has formed a syndicate of rich Frenchmen which was announced last week to have acquired 100 acres on the verdant Cap d'Antibes between blatantly expensive Nice and augustly expensive Cannes. On these charmed 100 acres an Eden sacred to Frenchmen of wealth and position will be established and guarded against Anglo-Saxons.

M. Loucheur and his friends have the money and the power to realize their ideal. But will they? Can they resist the pressure of Anglo-Saxon gold upon their vacuum? Probably they cannot. Thrifty, as are nearly all Frenchmen, they are already rumored to entertain the possibility of selling to three non-Latins a third each of one of their hundred acres for a sum sufficiently stupendous to pay the expenses of developing the other 99,