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walking again Walked [[underlined]] 8 hours [[/underlined]] to day.
I see cup of coffee advertised in one of the cafés on the Boulevard for [[underlined]] 10 centimes la tasse. [[/underlined]] This means ½ cent American money. The [[underlined]] poor French People, are still thinking in francs and are selling for less than it costs them. [[/underlined]] The [[underlined]] hotels patronized by Americans [[/underlined]] and their financial men know better and [[underlined]] think in gold - Dollars. [[/underlined]] In the mean time there is increasing grumbling as to the "rising cost of living" from those who do not realize that it is the depreciation of the [[underlined]] "paper-franc", [[/underlined]]
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and who are paid in francs. [[underlined]] Dangerous situation breeding increasing dissatisfaction [[/underlined]] among salaried people. When I was last in France the [[strikethrough]] Franc [[/strikethrough]] [[underlined]] Dollar [[/underlined]] was worth 7 francs, and there was much grumbling then to day it is worth [[underlined]] 22 francs. Politicians [[/underlined]] are beginning to take notice. [[underlined]] Caillaux [[/underlined]] called back from exile is now entrusted with the thankless job of [[underlined]] balancing French Finances. [[/underlined]] His opponents know how to make him still more unpopulair. 
[[underlined]] June 29. [[/underlined]] Spent all day in Exhibition. Cloudy and cold. United States not represented nor any other American Republics nor Canada. No news