FOREST OF STEEL
"SPREADING IN EUROPE" FRANCE LOOKS ASKANCE AT GERMANY INTENSE MILITARISM (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 18th December, 10 a.m. PARIS, 17th December. M. Mistier, President of the Foreign Affairs Committee, addressing French members of Parliament, declared that Germany was making an intense military effort and had established a wartime economy in peace-time, as though she wanted to be ready shortly.” Perhaps she has not yet taken the decision or fixed the date, but we cannot be blind to the evidence,” he said.
M. Daladier, Defence Minister, declared that a forest of steel was spreading in Europe. The world had spent more than £2,000,000,000 on armaments in 1936. The meeting passed a resolution approving of M. Blum’s foreign policy.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 18 December 1936, Page 5
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