FRANCE ARCHIVES NATIONALES

Material relating to the Conseil du Plan, established to elaborate a system of concrete propositions with a view to re-equiping the country and modernising rapidly economic activities and the development of production, includes: first report of the Commission Général au Conseil du Plan with respect to its areas of interests coal, electricity, iron and steel industry, agriculture, forestry, national transport, exports and financing of plan. - Speech by M. Ricard, president of the General Economic Commission of the Conseil National du Patronat Français au Conseil du Plan, regarding need to establish coherent and comprehensive programme for the upcoming years. - Declaration of P. Le Brun, Secretary of Confédération Générale du Travail, to Conseil du Plan offering advice on expansion of international business, but need firstly to concentrate on national industry, stabilise prices and offered praise on work done by Jean Monnet and collaborators. - Speech by Leon Blum, President of Government at third session of Conseil du Plan on establishment of Commissariat du Plan to be a bureau of superior study under the control of the Chef du Government, and an organism of coordination between the diverse interests involved in the reconstruction of France.

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The originals are held in various Archives in Europe and in the USA

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