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...chummy with Red Russia was voiced last week in the Chamber of Deputies when Deputy Henri de Kerillis accused Air Minister Pierre Cot of having given to Soviet Russia a priceless French secret: a model and blueprints for the 23-mm. machine gun with which France's huge "airfortress" planes are to be armed. This airplane "cannon," screamed Deputy de 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...
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