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Dearest Kitty, In less than an hour, joy was followed by disappointment. Turkey hasn't entered the war yet. It was only a cabinet minister talking about Turkey giving up its neutrality some time soon. The newspaper-seller in Dam Square was shouting 'Turkey on England's side! ' and the papers were being snatched out of his hands. This was how we'd heard the encouraging rumour.
Thousand-guilder notes are being declared invalid. That'll be a blow to the black marketeers and others like them, but even more to people in hiding and anyone else with money that can't be accounted for. To turn in a thousand-guilder note, you have to be able to state how you came by it and provide proof. They can still be used to pay taxes, but only until next week. The five-hundred notes will lapse at the same time. Gies & Co. still had some unaccounted-for thousand-guilder notes, which they used to pay their estimated taxes for the coming years, so everything seems to be above board.