UNHAPPY FRANCE
MORE NAZI DEMANDS ARMY OF OCCUPATION . (United Press Asn.—Elec. Tel. copyright) LONDON, Sept. 19 The French Journal Official of September 14 publishes a law authorising the opening of a special account for the maintenance cost of the German army of occupation. The German Government has fixed this figure at 20‘000,000 reichsmarks a day and this is the figure which, under the terms of the armistice, France has to pay, irrespective of any demands by Italy or of what reparations Hitler may consider imposing at the peace treaty. Thus Germany Is asking 7,300,000,000 reichsmarks a year from France. While the sums demanded by Germany and those she was asked to pay in reparations in 1919 cannot very fruitfully be compared, owing to the change in the real value of the mark, it is yet clear that, leaving requisitioning and payments in kind out of the question, France, a territory with about one-thirtieth of the paying power of 1919 Germany, has to pay a sum which is three times the actual maximum annuity ever fixed under the Dawes Plan.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21224, 21 September 1940, Page 10
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179UNHAPPY FRANCE Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21224, 21 September 1940, Page 10
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