FRANCE AND HER ARMY
ESTIMATES DEFENDED “EVIL INFLUENCES IN EUROPE” Times Cable. Reed. 9.5 a.m. LONDON, Thursday. The Paris correspondent of “The Times” states that M. Painleve, the French War Minister, defending the military estimates in the Chamber of Deputies, and expounding the Government’s official attitude regarding Defence, said: “FVance’s frontier lies exposed to attack. The hour has not arrived when France is able to renounce the obligation to defend herself by army and navy. “I am not forgetting the Locarno policy, but there are too many evil, influences working in Europe. A disarmed France would be a temptation, not an example. M. Briand could not speak authoritatively’ at Geneva if he merely represented an enfeebled France. “The day' might come when war between the States of Europe is as unthinkable as between the States of America. Meanwhile, France must not be left a prey’ to attack, which must alway’s be regarded as a possibility. Therefore, let France retain the structure of her army’, which is also a structure for peace.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 525, 30 November 1928, Page 9
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