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...both cities, prices had skyrocketed so far under Nazi-managed inflation that the franc was worth something like 1/10 to 1/5?; and G.I. Joe (by agreement of the U.S. with its Allies) draws his cash in francs at the rate of 2$ a franc...
Take a good look at the enclosed French 20 franc note (see cut). It's one of the cleverest methods of subtle noncollaboration I can imagine. The French people who gave it to me said that millions of these were circulating around while the Germans were here. . . . The effect is produced by inserting a German postage-stamp portrait of Hitler behind the French fisherman's rope...
...Allied Command had taken "military money" into France-franc notes backed by nothing except the noncommittal printing on the currency (TIME, June 19). But to the Gaullists, the main issue was not the currency itself, however dubious its worth. It was simply that no U.S. or British authority had any business floating currency in France. That, said the Gaullists, was solely the function of Frenchmen. When the Allied command supplied its soldiers with non-French "francs," the whole principle of French sovereignty was imperiled...
...Peters (Sydney Greenstreet). Mr. Peters was also in Belgrade and Paris. And everywhere there were whispers of a cryptic organization called the Eurasian Credit Trust, whose headman turned up for a climax of blackmail and gunfire, with Mr. Peters gasping his life out on a mess of thousand-franc notes. By then Author Leyden had gathered more "material" than he bargained...