ADVANCES TO FRENCH
PROVISION FOR REPAYMENT RUGBY. Feb. 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 the terms of repayment are not defined, but, as one observer writes, the Committee of National Liberation has plenty of sterling, and more is coming in as 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 were merged. Advances were made for the upkeep of General de Gaulle’s Administration and for pay and allowances to the Free French forces. A slightly smaller sum, advanced for the purchase of military equipment and stores, has been cancelled under the new mutual aid agreement.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25458, 12 February 1944, Page 5
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