FRENCH BUDGET
POSITION SOUND
DEFENCE COSTS NOT GIVEN
(Received November 18, 1.25 p.m.)
PARIS, November 17,
The Finance Minister, M. Reynaud, presenting the 1940 Budget and Estimates, said the finance committee estimated expenditure at £438,000,000 and revenue at slightly more, despite new items of expenditure including £82,000,000 for allowances to families and social services, and £14,000,000 for refugees. The expenditure on the armed forces was not included, but M. Reynaud was., confident, that the budgetary position was sound.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 121, 18 November 1939, Page 14
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78FRENCH BUDGET Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 121, 18 November 1939, Page 14
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