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Show FRANCE TO PREVENT PRICEJNCREASES PARIS, Dec. 13 n Finance Minister Paul Reynaud opened general discussion of France's first wartime budget in the chamber of deputies today with a pledge that the government will not permit price increases, manipulation of foreign exchange or currency Inflation In-flation during the war. He declared that France was In a stronger economic position now than when war started three months ago. Since then French capital totaling 14,000,000,000 francs (1308,000,000) has returned from abroad, he said. |