Word: francs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...hard-hit Carentan, Americans got their warmest welcome. The townspeople said that the farmers round about sold to the Germans and the black market before they would sell to the local people. Many of the farmers have grown rich-again according to the townspeople. Now that the franc is pegged at 50 to the dollar (it was 250 to the dollar on the black market), they are richer than ever...
...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...