RUSSIA REJECTS THE ENGLISH POUND
(10 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 3. The Russian Fulourist organisation refuses to accept the pound sterling nt restaurant and other installations it operates at the Leipzig Trade Fair which opened yesterda v, reports the Associated Press. The Intourist manager said “England is in the midst of! an economic crisis and wo don’t trust the pound.” The Intourist is accepting only the American dollar, the Swedish krona and the Swiss franc.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22425, 4 September 1947, Page 5
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