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     I make this suggestion with full knowledge that
 
I am entirely ignorant with regard to the views of
 
our army at this moment. If there is anything to be
 
done in this sense, you will know, and I am certain
 
that you will do it.
 
     There is another enormous hole in the French
 
defense against the German bombardment planes. The
 
French have practically no modern "projectors", that
 
is to say,search-lights for use against German bombardment
 
planes that arrive at night. The French search-lights
 
are too slow in action to follow the modern bombing
 
planes and there is an intense fear here that night
 
bombing of Paris and other vital centers may be most
 
terrible.
 
     As you know, the only two manufacturers of search-
 
lights of this nature in the United States are General
 
Electric and Sperry. The French have approached these
 
two corporations and asked urgently for deliveries. They'~
 
have been told that deliveries by these eelpanics have
 
been so fully pre-empted by our own army that the corn-
 
bined production which can be sold to the French will
 
be 9 search-lights in February of next year; 15 in March,
 
and 30 in April. What will be left of Paris and other
 
French