is not at all unlikely that the next session of the French Parliament will see another attempt to legislate against the for eign banks doing business in j France. Thiore are now about 50 of these establishments, principally British and American, competing on. equal terms with the French banks, which have naturally felt the pinch, many French clients having discovered the th ility and expeditiousness of British and American banking methods. The main argument, however, which is brought against foreign banks is that they are allowed to receive deposits, and, consequently, that they are in a position to use French capital against French interests. It is assumed that. thes might be tempted to-sell the francs entrusted to them by French depositors in such way as to depress French currency and chus assist the manceuvres of that mysterious power called "international finance"? which the vast majority of Frenchmen rogerd as an insidious enemy always on the_ lookout to do the franc a bad turn -.and always ready to support the governments of other countries
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