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    "ocrText": "2 12/13/53 - Reel 6, Track 1, Page 2\ndollars\n[confused] from the exchange point-of-view. They were going to go\nsix hundred million dollars in the hole on the balance of payments.\nThey were also going to be five hundred million dollars, which was a\npart of the six hundred million dollars in-the hole, on their internal\nbudget, as their balance of payments problem required our doing something\nin regard to the six hundred million. And their internal difficulties,\nthey said right away, are going to involve aid to the extent of five\nhundred million--it didn't mean it was eleven hundred millio, but\nsix. Now what are you going to do about that now? And we had a\nseries of meetings. Bob Lovett was in Paris, Averell was there, Frank\nNash, and several people from the StatedDepartment and myself, and our\nefforts were to get Averell and Bob who had all the money--nobody else\nhad any money--to make some commitments by which the French could go\nCONTINUE\nahead--now this was not a finality, but they could go ahead with the\nassurance that their foreign exchange problem would be taken care of\nand certain things done on this aid business. This resulted in\nquite a poker game between Averell and Bob, in which various people\nwere trying to take all Averell's money away from him and Bdo not spend\nany of his. Averell was fully able to maintain his end of that contest.\nAnd did. A whole series of near-agreementswere worked out with the\nFrench, by which we agreed that we would go ahead very vigorously on\nAmerican military expenditures in France--airfields and that sort of\nthing, if the French would make it possible.\nthey were finding it very difficult indeed, to get the land condernndd for\nan airfield. Every time some little French farm right in the middle of\nan airfield and a man had a crop of wheat in the ground and his deputy\nthe crop\nwould say you can't take this away from him til hè getspir and one thing\nand another."
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