Dead giveaway of Adolf Hitler's intention to run his conquered European countries as auxiliaries to a dominant industrial Germany was last week's announcement that minimum tariffs had been "granted" by the French Vichy Government to all German goods entering France or French colonies.
An even lower "special reduction" applied to table and kitchen porcelain and tea and coffee services of German clay and make. It could mean that the great French porcelain industry was the first to be smashed to bits in converting France into a strictly agricultural nation.
Hardest hit city was Brittany's...
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