RUSSIAN ALLIANCE
INDICATED IN FRANCE. :*• ; ;> ..'••'••a .-7* - ON MILITARY LINES. AIMED AGAINST GERMANY. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received November 24, 9.30 a.m. PARIS, Nov. 23. , The first indication of a FrancoRussian military alliance was given in : the Chamber of Deputies when M. Archimbaud, who is in charge of the army estimates, said: Russia offers us her solid well-equipped army in the event of a FrancoGerman war. Russia’s :yr fleet is the world’s best, with the French next.
He added that Herr Hitler was not observing the Versailles Treaty, trying to range Poland and Japan against Russia. Only a Franco-Russian union would stabilise peace. M. Fabry, President of the Army Commission, pleading for a stronger army, declared that Germany was making gigantic efforts in the construction of war material, notably in aviation, which menace was directed against London and Paris. French weakness would invite war, he deolared.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 307, 24 November 1934, Page 7
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