ABSTRACT
In February 1940, Captain Lemaigre Dubreuil was assigned to the French military mission in Bucharest where he had served during the First World War. As the president of Georges Lesieur et ses Fils, an adviser to the Bank of France, the former president of the Taxpayers’ Federation, and the new owner of Le Jour-Écho de Paris, he was superbly qualified to assess economic matters. And not surprisingly this was his first task. 1 He was instructed to make estimates of Romanian supplies of petroleum, wheat, timber, and oleaginous seeds, and of Romanian shipments to Germany of these same items. In addition, he was to analyze the Romanian national budget and bond issues and to prepare a weekly summary of press articles concerned with economic affairs. 2
