FRENCH GOLD
PART PROBABLY SENT TO UNITED STATES A terse announcement by the United States Treasury that "some time ago the United States purchased a sum of gold from the French Government, and that it was transported to the United States by the U.S. cruiser Vincennes, which was returning from abroad," is taken to indicate that the French succeeded in saving from German hands a considerable portion of their gold reserve . Since the United States Treasury now has an excessive gold supply? the word'"sale" is merely considered to be a cover device for making possible thet rnnsfer of the gold to the United States and its shipment in an American naval vessel. The in a broadcast, said £100,000,000 sterling worth of gold would go to Germany if the United States recognised the present French Government.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 195, 5 August 1940, Page 7
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135FRENCH GOLD Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 195, 5 August 1940, Page 7
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