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Show NATIOML CAPITAL! W AFFAIRS B 1 "Yes; 'We Have No Isolationists Today" WASniNGTON.--Amerlcu hns provided Europe since the armistice with eleven billions bil-lions of good dollani. This money has gone toward reconstruction, reconstruc-tion, toward the relief of suffering nnd starvation and toward putting tottering totter-ing governments on their feet. Half of It was provided by the government through taxation. Half of It was the free will contribution of millions of Americans. In other words, for every man, woman wom-an and child In the United States, Europe has received the direct benefit of $K)0 during the last four years and eight months. When pathos, sentimentality or self-interest self-interest cry for America to rush to the aid of Europe or decry u policy of "Isolation" the answer can be taken straight from the books: "Yes, we have no Isolationists today to-day !" It must be understood that this money Is entirely apart from sums sient by America on its own overseas forces or on the prosecution of the war. It is a debit balance thnt has accumulated strictly since November 11, HilS, and, apart from the remittance remit-tance of Interest on war loans, has nothing to do with America's war ef fort. Thnt cost nnolher seven billions In loans to Europe, nnd nearly Ilfty billions for our own war effort. But the eleven billion by which Enroth En-roth has benefited since the una slice j may be divided under the following heads : I Government credits since urmlstlce, I $2,500,000,000. Interest remitted since armistice, ?4,- j 000,000,000. Birent by government and private agencies In relief work, $2,250,000,000. j I'rivate loans to Europe, $1,000,000,- 000. ! Spent by American travelers In Eu- 1 rope, $1,250,000,000. j Total, $11,000,000X). Every year since the armistice j America's per capita contribution to j Europe lias been nearly three times what America's entire per capita expenditure ex-penditure on her own government was in 1910 or any previous year except 18(55. i When the guns were hushed and negotiations ne-gotiations for peace began the United States burled the past and turned to the future. It Is a truism that American Ameri-can gold and American workers have been carrying the chief burden of every work of mercy In Europe since that time. |