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Issues and Men
Villard, Oswald Garrison | February 27, 1937 issue

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The European dance of death goes merrily on. In the past few weeks the press has reported the following developments in the armament race. The French Parliament has voted, 405 to 186, in favor of the government's vast new national-defense program, the Communists all voting aye. The outlay is to be 19,000,000,000 francs in the regular estimates and another 19,000,000,000 to be spread over the next four years, thus "heavily mortgaging the future," as the dispatches report. Of course, both the Defense Minister and the Air Minister reported that there was no cause for alarm. Yet the new appropriations were voted although the French Republic has no money to pay its international debts and cannot balance its budget.

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BUDGET; ARMS race; MILITARY readiness; MILITARY weapons; EXPENDITURES, Public; FINANCE, Public; FRANCE
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