I think that the vast majority of American soldiers are leaving France hating and despising her. It is a fact that they dislike the French attitude to monetary matters and they have been uncomfortable nearly all the time in France. Americans feel that they’ve been cheated right and left. All France’s destroyed churches and towns do not make half the impression on the doughboy as the charge of 15 francs for a handkerchief. And somehow or other in Germany Americans aren’t over-charged even where military control is loose.19
