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OCR Page 1 of 7THE FRENCH SITUATION
AN INTERIM REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
1. BASIS OF INFORMATION:
A. Members of the French Cabinet,
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particularly the Ministers of Foreign
Affairs, Finance, War, and Reconstruction.
B. Industrialists, such as the heads of
coal companies, banks, newspapers, automobile
manufacturers, chain stores, brokers, financial
and agricultural, and insurance companies.
C. Diplomatic Corps.
D. Naval and Military groups.
E. French society, both in Paris and the
province.
F. French political party leaders, including
pretenders to the throne.
G. Small storekeepers, taximen, professional
men and women.
H. All sorts and conditions of people in the
provinces, including farmers.
2. GENERAL IMPRESSION OF FRANCE.
A. A country from the highest in the government
down to the poorest peasant which is sitting
back waiting for something to happen; which is
living nationally on a black market; which is
completely unaware of American sympathy and aid;
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which has never been informed of San Francisco,
Reciprocal Trade Treaties, and Bretton Woods;
which has no knowledge of American rationing
and thinks all America has the same supplies
as United States troops; in which the cost of
living permits only the rich to really subsist;
a country where the young, from the best to the
lowest families live and thrive on the Black
Market; 3 country with such an inferiority
complex that frank discussion is difficult if
not impossible; a country convinced that the
United States and Russiá will have to fight
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