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BULGARIA'S RE-AFFIRMED

POLICY

BULGARIA WILL not depart from her avowed policy of strict neutrality, declared. M. Popoff, the Foreign Minister, in the Bul- garian Parliament yesterday.

M. Popoff emphasised there are no cur- rent causes requiring a change in the neutra- lity policy which has been clearly enunciated.

The statement was made dur- Col. Masaloff, new military at- ing the debate on the Budgel in tache, arrived recently. which an ex-Minister had stated that the Bulgarian people had the right to ask the Government to clarify its foreign polity because they would defend Bulgarin with! money and property.

M. Popoff also referred ap parently to propaganda of Bul- garian Left Wing elementa favouring closer cooperation with Russia.

He said the Bulgarian Govern- resolutely determined inent Was not to listen to the Right or Left outside the National Assembly.

Soviet Changes

Meanwhile it is strongly ru- ¦ moured in the Soviet Legation in Soña that changes in personnel are imminent.

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SPIRIT

REVIVING

Parisians Wear Tricolour

Though it is too early yet to know how far the

In

In view of the recent increase in Communist propaganda Bulgaria such changes are believ- ed to be important.

Reuter.

ALUMINIUM IN THE AIR

MORE

THAN

HALF THE WHICH ALUMINIU M THOUSANDS OF HOUSE- HOLDERS GAVE TOWARDS WAR PRODUCTION HAS BEEN TURNED INTO THE MANU- FACTURE OF AEROPLANES.

"The res," sta ed Mr. R. A. Layton Bennett, Chairman of the Aluminium Appeal Committee, "will be ready to take the sky at the end of January."

NATIONAL SURVEY FOR SCRAP IRON

The national survey undertaken by the Ministry of Supply to bring to war furnaces all available scrop iron is being extended to Lancashire and Yorkshire. Somerset and Glamorgan have already been - survey- ed. Scotland, London and the four North of England counties are in process of survey. -British Wireless.

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GOOD UNDERTONE IN STOCK MARKET

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Although business on the Lon- Stock Exchange yesterday was only of a spasmodic character

was kit- the undertone

satisfactory.

Five hundred tons of aluminium puts and pans from army chens--sufficient for 500 planes Furthermore President Roosevelt's

i will almost inmediately. it is

new

speech and the terms of the stated, be handed over by the 2% per cent War Bonds and three War Office to the M nistry of Air- per cent Savings Bonds, indicat- Production.--British Wire-ing Government's intention to ad-

craft less.

CIGARS FOR THE PREMIER

A BOX OF

CIGARS

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AS A LANDS EAST INDIES BIRTHDAY PRESENT FOR MR. CHURCHILL.

heartening news of the BEEN SENT BY THE NETHER

de Gen. expansion of Gaulle's following has spread in France, there are various signs that a slow reawakening of na- pro- tional feeling is in gress.

The general impression to be gathered from the controlled Press is that the writers paid by Germany are hoping and praying for a rapid German victory, so that they may be proved right and escape from paying, sooner or later, the penalty of their trea- chery,

Meanwhile-Gringoire, a scur- rilous weekly, which lives on scandal and political "it- bits," is showing caution where Gen. de Gaulle is concerned. In the last issue to reach London, though the one paragraph in which the General is mentioned is un- pleasant in tone it speaks of the "robust" answer which he made to the news that he had been sentenced to death-"We who go on fighting are all more or less sentenced to death, anyway."

This can only mean Gringeire suspects that many of its readers have a soft spot in their hearts for the Free France movement. Otherwise it would attack him as it attacks Mr. Churchill.

Germans Nettled

that

M. Laval has had talks in Paris i with Otto Abetz, the official re- presentative in France of the German Foreign Office. This visit coincided with, though, perhaps it did not provoke, an outburst of tricolour ribbons or blue, white and red flowers worn by Pari- siennes, Rather nettled and puzzled by this, the Germans have in“ | structed their hacks in the Paris Press to discourage' it, a

"La France au Travail" obedi- ently did this. "It is in the worst possible taste," stated this organ." "We are all suffering from the same misery and are all French. Nobody needs to exhibit the na tional colours on his person to prove this,"

In a word, the Germans are content so long as misery la dis. "played, "but they four and resent

any show of courage, A

For this offence "Le Figaro," pub- ished in, non-occupied territory, has been suspended for one day. For no apparent reason it recent- ly published an article by Francois Mauriao extolling the principles of liberty, p

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here to a cheap money policy. created a good impression. Gilt- edged were rather irregular but several industrials made headway. Wall Street was firm.-Reuter.

F.M.S. DONATION

of

A further contribution £8,000 from the Federated Malay The box is presented by the lea-States War Fund and £5,000 from Provost of Aberdeen ders of the four political parties the Lord

Fighter Fund (the latter making of the People's Council.

£20,000 in all) are among gifts acknowledged by the Minister of Aircraft Production. British Wireless.

The inscription on the box pays tribute to Mr. Churchill's energy,

and leadership. doggedness Reuter.

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