Swaps and Sales

Armaments salesmen had a busy time last week, as cash-hungry nations peddled their military wares even to possible enemies and the other nations bought to cover chinks in their armor.

>Nazi Germany, already arming most of the Balkan countries, offered potential enemy Yugoslavia a 200,000,000-mark credit to be applied on armament purchases over a ten-year period.

>Germany, which needs gold more than guns, even offered to sell to France some of the vast cache of arms seized when the Nazis marched into Czecho-Slovakia. Heading the list of bargains were 1,600 war planes. Czech Army equipment was originally financed in part by French loans.

>A French military mission, anticipating the day when American factories will turn out tons of French war material, arrived in the U. S. to arrange "educational orders."

>France, despite its own plane shortage, also contracted to swap Breguet fighters for Swedish anti-aircraft guns.

>At Odessa, Soviet Russia took delivery on the latest addition to its Black Sea fleet, the Italian-built, 2,895-ton destroyer Tashkent.

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