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...Kerillis, is the sole superiority France has over its potential enemies in the air. Scrappy, bespectacled Air Minister Cot replied that nations allied in pacts of mutual assistance, as are France and Russia, ought to exchange information, that anyway the "cannon" was the property of a Swiss engineer named Birckigt who had the right to sell it to anyone and that anyhow he had not yet delivered a single "cannon" to France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: No, Without Bayonets | 7/20/1936 | See Source »

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