1,000,000 Men in 6,000 Factories Employed on French Defence Plans

Northern Advocate, 13 May 1939, Page 7

1,000,000 Men in 6,000 Factories Employed on French Defence Plans

(Received 11.30 a.m.) PARIS, May 12. vr daladier, in the chamber of deputies, giving evidence 1 *OF FRANCE S QUICKENING REARMAMENT, SAID THAT 0,000 FACTORIES WERE EMPLOYED ON NATIONAL DEFENCE PROJECTS, COMPARED WITH BETWEEN 2,500 AND 2,800 LAST YEAR. The Prime Minister added that France today was a huge workshop in which 1,000,000 men were working ceaselessly for national defence.

Think of Country Atone. “Our duly is to think of our country alone and take those virile decisions which its safety demands.”

The speech was broadcast in French, English, German, Italian, Serb, Croat, Spanish. Portugese, Rumanian and Arabic.

M. Reynaud, Minister of Finance, announced that complete financial stability had been achieved'. All Government Departments were now national defence departments, the chief of which was the Ministry of Finance. The deputies carried a motion of confidence in M. Daladier by 375 votes to 230. If the vote had been taken solely on foreign affairs it would have been unanimous. The divergence of views occurred over finance and the decree laws. The Socialists, at a private meeting, split 48 against 42 for M. Daladier. France’s Voice Heard. M. Blum, Socialist leader, during the debate referred to a change of FrancoBritish foreign policy and said that every move capable of persuading the dictators of the democracies’ determination is a move of peace, the only change of which consists of the Totalitarian States understanding of the sincerity of the ' Franco-British determination that new aggression will not be tolerated. M. Daladier denied that the French policy had changed since Munich. France’s voice he said, had been heard. Others has assumed common obligations with France. Liberty could not be saved without painful and tenacious effort.