English Translation

X - 4 - The Federal Council today announced provisions for the execution of the Federal Council decision on the dissolution of the Communist Party in Switzerland. Havas announces that Pierre Laval was received today by Marshal Petain. The Marshal discussed the general situation with Laval. Jn Toulouse met today coming from Germany via Switzerland a train with wounded Frenchmen. Soldiers in. Lo nd on-English. Statement of the Minister Lord Beaverbrook: The minister spoke about dås growth of the British aircraft industry and explained that England with the help of the USA will soon be the strongest air-power the farthest. The British purchasing commission in the USA buys all the machines and engines that are to be had, everything the USA can produce for us. England is attracting an ever-increasing number of aircraft from the USA, including a large number of excellent hunting machines. For example, the Curtis P 4o hunting machine is an airplane that in every respect resembles the Spitfire. However, this is only one of the many types that is constantly receiving narrowness. Machines to England will continue to grow until they reach the number of 26 ooo machines in the year 1942. England is now stronger on all fronts than ever before. Apart from the supplies of war material, the ameri, public opinion on the part of England, is convinced of the British victory. As we have been told, in the United States the conviction has been expressed from a decisive point of view that England could only lose the war if it became confident and carefree. We therefore have to warn our people again and again of too great confidence. Hitler, when he started the war, sat down on a three-legged chair. He hoped l. on the German superiority in the air, on the mechanized troops, and on the influence of fear and panic in the peoples of the opposite side. On the British side, however, there is a safe weapon of defense: the domination of the seas. To this day, until the present hour, England has maintained this rule. England has already broken one leg out of Hitler's three-legged chair: the superiority in the air. We have already conquered the rule of days in the daily air fights. The enemy is now cutting a new leg for the chair by increasingly trying to attack our shipping. He intends to impose a kind of blockade on England with the help of his caper ships, submarines and plug-ins, but our fleet must also remain victorious. In the course of the war, the fleet will be strengthened even more by the coastal control of the British Air Force. All the preparations of the enemy speak for it, since already in the spring he will try ajnvasion of England by land and sea routes, but before that out of the air. The German newspapers contain constantly hints about the violent efforts Hitler makes to bring out a powerful air-weapon in the Spring. These preparations are aimed at a goal. We know that Germany has made similar preparations against other countries in the past winter. The Germans will certainly take action against us with great courage when the hour has come, but we want to face this danger with diligence, perseverance and courage and they -5 -