"From now on that aid will be President continued; The British people are braced for an invasion when-ver an attempt may come".
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Vichy, Mar. 15.
Admiral Francois Darlan, the Vice Premier, is to go to Paris again eatly next week. He was scheduled to have gone this week, but pressure of work compelled him to postpone his visit.
As far as political affairs were concerned, the Vice-Premier presided over a full meeting of departmental leaders of the War Veterans' Legion and gave them instructions which will serve as a definitive basis for their organization, which now has 460,000 members. France's political backbone will be formed through cooperation between this organization and the National Unity group, a nation wide organization.
On the other hand, efforts will be made to bring about a rapprochement between the National Unity group, in unoccupied Frahee, and the Popular Unity group, in occupied France.
In the economic sphere, Admiral Darlan presided over a series of ea ferences he held with demerit: prefects, who reported on their acti-Vities and received new instructions.
—Havas. pressive, Only 100 factories out of the 5,000 to 6,000 involved in the war effort have been out of commission. At any one time production was only about 20 per cent, below what it might have been had there been no air raids and is now only about 10 per cent. below the estimated total of what production might have been had there been no "blitzkrieg."
Only about 20,000 buildings have been destroyed or seriously damaged in the London Mr. Klemmer disclosed, and deaths are running at about 1,000 a week, which is less than the British anticipated. Bomb damage for the entire British Isles, Mr. Klemmer set at US$1,000,000,000,
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