FRENCH ARMAMENT
MARSHAL PETAIN’S VIEWS (United Press Association- —By Electro Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received this day at 2.15 p.m.) PARIS, June 14. Marshal Petain, addressing journalists at a luncheon, said: “France will remain on the defensive. She has suffered too greatly to run risks deliberately. France, though she had reduced armaments, fears nobody. “We have clad our frontiers with arms, and methodically motorised big units. France realises her exposure to brutal, sudden, air attacks, yet to stimulate confidence, she need only note the re-awakening of the glorious ancestral military spirit of the army, which maintains the necessary man power to guarantee territorial inviolability;”
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 June 1934, Page 6
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