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The French Government did all that was possible last week for the immediate problem, that of providing food for the half-starved Loyalists. Toward settling the bigger problem, resettling the refugees either in Spain or in some other country, the Loyalist Government made the first step. It issued to the refugees a printed form asking: "What do you want to do? Remain in France? Have you means to do so? Work in America, [South and Central] in your profession? Return to [Insurgent) Spain? What motives impel you to adopt this decision?" Officials of the Loyalist Ministry of State declared that their Government intends to see this resettlement project through to the end, even if it means paying the expenses of those refugees who choose to go to Mexico or South America.
Meantime, the Loyalist Government arranged with France to use the sizable gold holdings it still has in Paris to pay for part of the refugees' expenses in France.