The Archive · 1941

Armistice Plan

'A. special decree specifies that the "Delegate-General" entrusted with the conduct of Franco-German relations will keep in direct touch with the economic delegation of the French-German armistice committee in Wiesbaden, Another decree provides for the appointment of a Delegate-General for National Equipment, who will be entrusted with the task, among others, of solving {he unemployment problem, M. Lucien Romier, the well-known French journalist, economist and historian, has been appointed one of the personal advisers to Marshal Philippe Petain, the Chief of State, according to a special degree promulgated today His works on the 15th and 16th centuries in France stamped him as one of France's outstanding contemporary historians and brought him to the public's notice.

He is also the author of several sociological and economic works. One of his books, entitled "Who will be-Come master of the world, Europe or America?" is of particular interest at present,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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