Reel 17425 - Page 1653
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Reel 17425 - Page 1653
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**G.P.H.F.**
**From:** Paris
**To:** Washington
**Fax:** 808-314 (Summary)
**Sent:** Jan. 28, 1945
**Reel:** Feb. 3, 1945
The Minister of Finance says that American soldiers are quite unjustified in complaining of high prices in France. Their food being supplied to them by the army, and their lodging by the French under Mutual Aid, they have no expenses except for luxury articles and entertainment, the prices of which are just as high for the French. He rejects BONNET's suggestion that the Americans should pay only half price for these things, the remainder to be provided by the French Government, on the grounds that it would be most unfair to place any extra burden upon a people who already are suffering from no heating and an uncertain food supply. He says that cases of fraud by dishonest shopkeepers are being dealt with for the sake of the French as well as the Americans, and that American residents of France find nothing unfavourable in the position of American soldiers in that country. Signed: DIPLOPHANCE
**Examination Unit,**
**National Research Council,**
**February 7, 1945.**
**File:** FG-5333
**G.P.H.F.**
**From:** Paris
**To:** Washington
**Fax:** 808-314 (Summary)
**Sent:** Jan. 28, 1945
**Reel:** Feb. 3, 1945
The Minister of Finance says that American soldiers are quite unjustified in complaining of high prices in France. Their food being supplied to them by the army, and their lodging by the French under Mutual Aid, they have no expenses except for luxury articles and entertainment, the prices of which are just as high for the French. He rejects BONNET's suggestion that the Americans should pay only half price for these things, the remainder to be provided by the French Government, on the grounds that it would be most unfair to place any extra burden upon a people who already are suffering from no heating and an uncertain food supply. He says that cases of fraud by dishonest shopkeepers are being dealt with for the sake of the French as well as the Americans, and that American residents of France find nothing unfavourable in the position of American soldiers in that country. Signed: DIPLOPHANCE
**Examination Unit,**
**National Research Council,**
**February 7, 1945.**
**File:** FG-5333
Source
https://image-uab.canadiana.ca/iiif/2/69429%2Fc0rv0cw7b12n/full/max/0/default.jpg
Date
1941/1945
Rights
Public Domain
Relation
oocihm.lac_reel_t17425
Format
image/jpeg
Language
fra
Type
Text
Coverage
Vichy France; World War II; 1940-1945
Files
Collection
Citation
“Reel 17425 - Page 1653,” La Sous-section de l’examen (1941-1945), accessed February 10, 2026, https://omeka.healthresearchhub.net/items/show/4944.