'27th February 1929. Paris is having a gay old time following the dispute between the luck of the press and M. Coty. Yesterday, Coty came out with a four column poster the size of a house triumphing over a verdict in the courts. Today the ?Matin? replies in kind. I love this French poster warfare. The ?Matin?s? claim that Coty must subsidise his paper in order to sell at 10c sounds rather more than reasonable, but for the ?Matin? to complain about subsidised newspapers is rather cheek if certain generally accepted rumours are to be believed. Still he has a neck to demand that the rest of the press come down to his price. Every one has not a huge private fund from which to stand the losses of a big newspaper. The ?Matin? says that the English National Citizens Union have passed a resolution asking the Government to legislate for the sterilisation of ?mentals? and incurables. So it has got as far as popular politics. Something will be done yet.'