FRENCH BUDGET
APPROVAL OF SENATE UNANIMOUS VOTE INCREASED PRODUCTION RETURN OF CAPITAL (EI.!C, Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Dec. 30. 9 a.m.) PARIS, Dec. 28. The French Senate unanimously passed the Budget Speaking during the debate the Minister of Finance. M. Reyitiaud. -said that during the year the volume ot production and export had increased by 20 per cent. Unemployment was the lowest for six years. Capital steadily flowed back to France, £340,000,000 having returned during the year. Social order had been. restored. The civil Budget would be balanced and all the expenditure met by taxation, including £118,000,000 for indirect war expenses. Other war expenses were being met by loans.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20133, 30 December 1939, Page 10
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