Less Pay And Harder Work In France
(Received 2.30 p.m.) PARIS, December 28. “We are determined to draw up a new national balance sheet after the first quarter of 1939,” declared M. Reynaud, Minister of Finance, defending the Budget before the Senate. He added that drastic expenditure cuts and higher production and revenue were vitally necessary. “France cannot continue on the present scale of living and arm'herself,” he added. “Military expenditure in 1939 will be £230,000,000. Our obligations from the Great War are still £85,000,000. “We are going to see thousands of millions of francs thrown into the abyss of national defence, but can we be satisfied, when, despite this, it has taken 18 months to build a submarine compared with Germany’s eight months?
“It is imperative to work more productively if we desire to improve oti* position,” he declared.
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Northern Advocate, 29 December 1938, Page 5
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