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British produced a considerable number of training
 
planes.
 
     The French and British believe that the Germans
 
can produce approximately fifteen hundred planes per
 
month but can not go above that figure; and that the
 
Germans are now producing one thousand planes a month.
 
     The French and British hope that their combined
 
production of war planes will amount to approximately
 
twelve hundred a month by next Spring. It is obvious
 
to everyone that if France and England are to obtain,
 
first, equality in the air, and then dominance in the
 
air, the productive capacity of the United States must
 
be called into play to a much larger degree than at
 
present.
 
     The French realize that the production of motors
 
by Pratt and Whitney, Curtiss Wright, and Allison will
 
be in such large measure taken up by orders of the
 
American Army that it will be necessary for the British
 
and French to pay for enlargements of these plants so
 
that their production may be trebled.
 
     The present plan is to send to the United States,
 
as soon as the Neutrality Act shall have been changed,
 
persons