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...This agreement has been enlarged by the distribution on an equitable basis of all common charges, and by the establishment of complete solidarity between our two monies, the franc and the pound sterling. This Franco-British Union is open to all. ... I [can] conceive that the new Europe should have a wider organization. . . . Commercial exchange must be multiplied, and perhaps federative bonds envisaged between the various European States." In the French military budget it was estimated that the cost of running the war during 1940 would be $5,931,000,000, to be raised by a series of loans. First...
...Leros in that happy hunting ground of submarines-the Aegean. The master stroke of recent Italian history was the seizure of Albania. For between Albania's capital of Tirana and the Greek port of Salonika there is a trough, along which Italian troops could move to intercept a Franco-British thrust into the Balkans...
Weighty Newspundit Walter Lippmann, in Paris to hail Democracy's new potency in Europe, resulting from recent Anglo-French rearmament and collaboration, cabled: "The period of Franco-British impotence under the menace of a knockout blow came to an end in April of this year. The end was marked by the creation of what is in all but name an alliance. This alliance was tested in the Czechoslovak crisis of May 21 and survived its first severe practical test...
...exhibition of caricatures was organized by a new Franco-British Association of Art et Tourisme, sponsored by Their Excellencies the British and French Ambassadors, and numbering among its active officers Anglophile André Maurois. Frenchmen, who are still fond enough of Daumier and Grandville (TIME, Nov. 8) to use their drawings in modern advertisements, got plenty of fun out of their English predecessors and contemporaries, Hogarth, Rowlandson, Gillray, Cruikshank et al., represented by 391 sketches, engravings and lithographs. But this was only a foretaste of the grandeurs to come...
Since the non-intervention patrol, and particularly since the "piracy" patrol British and French ships have mutually used strategic Port Mahon as an anchorage-one more reason for that extraordinary harmony of Franco-British policy which even the Germans were admiring last week...