FRANCE ACCUSES BRITAIN OF BID TO DOMINATE TRADE
(10.15 aun.) LONDON, Dec. 12. ' The French Foreign Office in an official statement accusing Britain of trying to dominate Western European trade said the British efforts were aimed at making the £1 sterling rare money, says the Associated Press corresponsible in Paris.
Britain, the statement alleged, had presented her plan for European recovery programme co-operation under which she would reduce nearly to nothing her purchases m Western Europe and would, on the contrary, enormously increase her exports. Under the British plan Britain would, for example, buy only £7,000,000 worth of equipment and products from Western Europe and sell £107,500,000 worth. The statement denied that one of the things slowing up the European recovery programme was the fact tnat France wanted to sell Britain too many luxury goods.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22818, 13 December 1948, Page 6
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