London, May 10.
Tribute to M. Raoul D'Autry, French Minister of Production, was paid in a speech by the British Minister of Supply, Mr. Edward Burgin, at Cardiff.
Mr, Burgin said, "M. D'Autry has achieved in France spectacular results in the enormous growth and expansion of his armaments production programme, "He thinks in multiples, he works at a terrific pace, and he has the great faculty of making friends, He is idolized by all workers and, what is.so important for a politician and Production Minister, he is left alone by his colleagues.
"But he, too, has difficulties with machine tools, with raw materials and with skilled labour. Fortunately, such is the collaboration between our two countries—officers of his Ministry are in my office in London and officers of my Ministry are in his office in Paris—that we frequently can come to one another's aid."—British Oficial Wireless,
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