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...while Frenchmen frolicked, the epicenter of Western Europe's crisis shifted to France. Henceforth the tremors would come more & more quickly...
Just what would lack of dollars mean to Frenchmen? Each month France has been using 5,500,000 tons of coal. But she has been producing only 4,000,000 tons. After October France can no longer buy the extra 1,500,000 tons a month from the U.S. French industrial production will drop 50%; French homes will have no coal...
France consumes 7,000,000 tons of wheat each year, usually grows 6,700,000 tons of it herself. This year drought cut the French yield to 3,300,000 tons. Without dollars to buy wheat abroad, Frenchmen will have little bread, their basic food. The bread ration has already been cut to 200 grams a day (75 grams lower than the lowest ration during the German occupation). Probable November level: 150 grams (less than four average U.S. slices) daily...
What most Frenchmen feared was that the day Premier Ramadier was turned out, the showdown between De Gaulle and Communism would begin. A former Resistance worker voiced the mood of many plain men last week: "Now we enjoy our food and our wine and the sunshine on the coast-as long as we have them to enjoy-and we can only hope that our children can learn enough to do better. We are finished...
...French steel production of 12 million tons would be quite a comfort to Frenchmen, even if western Germany were turning out 10.7 million by that time. The real basis of Germany's prewar threat to France was the fact that Germany could make three times as much armament as France could. As long as the French stayed ahead, it was safe to let German industry rise. Europe would never be rebuilt if keeping the absolute level of German industry down was made the first consideration of European planning...