The Archive · 1940

Paris Notes Discrepancies Paris, Feb. 15

French political quarters €mphasized today in their commentary on Field Marshal Hermann Goerings speech that the German Four-Year Plan Director made no mention of the aid that Central Europe and, above all, Russia, may afford the, Reich's food situation.

His silence on this point is worthy of attention all the more since the Reich and Soviet Russia' only lately signed new trade accords which, according to the German press, "should give the German population unlimited resources in raw ma~ terials."

Field Marshal Goering took the contrary view and stressed the need for self-sufficiency and the necessity for Germany to increase her own production with this end in view In his address, he revealed that Ger. many does not believe she can rely on Soviet and other foreign aid for a long time to come.—Havas.

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