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371
75-2
-2- 2492, April 5, noon (SECTION ONE) from Chungking
via N.R.
American Treasury and tax payer should be relieved of
the financial charge which the present unrensonable rate
of Exchange imposes - I refer to our Government's
Expenditures here in the form of illowances and per
diems to officers and employeEs and to ENCESSIVE
charges for rent and other services which derive from
the disparity between the actual value of
the Chinese dollar (less than one c Ent United States )
and the value of five c Ents.
Three. There would SEEM to be tuo prectical ways
in which the above mentioned charges could be transferred
from the Anerican Treasury to the Chinese Government
under the contemplated reverse Lend- Ea3E agreement
without the necessity of fixing c. spicial rate.
VINCEIT
LIMM
a ARCHIVES NATIONAL SERVICE'S RECORDS AND
is
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