The Guardian Weekly is a weekly British-based (London) English language newspaper published by the Guardian Media Group and is one of the world's oldest international newspapers. It has readers in 173 countries. It was founded with the aim of spreading progressive British ideas into the United States after the First World War. The first edition of the Manchester Guardian Weekly was printed a week after the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, and stated its aim as "presenting what is best and most interesting in the Manchester Guardian, what is most distinctive and independent of time, in a compact weekly form". It has long also been printed in an airmail edition on light-weight paper, mailed directly to subscribers where it is not distributed by other means, and in modern times th