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Show Idle Men In France During recent years many references ref-erences have been made to the French prosperity as being an exception to the general worldwide world-wide depression. Recent reports indicate, however, that France is beginning to be affected like every ev-ery other nation. There were signs months ago that this was coming about, one of the most dependable being the fact that the budget of the French government was not being balanced bal-anced any more than that of the other countries. Now, it seems, that notwithstanding the huge amount of German reparations payments which poured intc France and the liquidation several sever-al years ago of 3 large part of the French indebtedness by inflation, the French are facing an unemployment unem-ployment situation. The French Government has recently announced that it would spend $156,000,000 extra on public works for the purpose of giving employment to the idle. The official of-ficial estimate is that there arc 61,000 French unemployed but newspapers increase this estimate considerable, one declaring that there were at least 1,000,000 unemployed. |