LOANS TO DE GAULLE
Payment By National Committee (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, February 10. The French undertaking to repay the British Treasury’s past advances to General de Gaulle’s movement is understood to involve a sum which may amount to £30,000,000. The time and terms of repayment are not defined, but as one observer writes, the National Liberation Committee has plenty of sterling and more coming in ns the British armies in French territories increase. It is pointed out that the Treasury did not insist on this undertaking. The French offered it as soon as the London and Algiers committees merged. The advances were made for the upkeep of General de Gaulle’s administration and for pav and allowances to the Free French forces. A slightly smaller sum which was advanced for the purchase of military equipment and stores has been cancelled under the new mutual which is retroactive.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 117, 12 February 1944, Page 7
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147LOANS TO DE GAULLE Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 117, 12 February 1944, Page 7
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