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Show in France. After the war the American government sold surplus supplies worth more than a billion dollars to the French government govern-ment for $400,OC0,O0C', no part of which France is required to pay until 1929. The supplies brought, in fo.ct, fully a billion dollars after their purchase by speculators at a profit to the French government. gov-ernment. The sale of these supplies by this givernment at a sacrifice sacri-fice was made necessary because the French government forbade their being thrown upon the market. On the other side of the ledger led-ger it may be noted that Germany has offered Belgium forty million mil-lion dollars for two towns. Alsace Lorraine to France is incalculable; incalcul-able; yet there is never a thought of weighing the assets acquired by Fraince as the result of the war against the liabilities, or takine; into consideration what France might have lest by way of territory terri-tory and indemnities except for the svrphes sold by the United States to the allied armies before America got into the war, and the financial and military assistance rendered during the war." WE SPENT MONEY IN EUROPE The allies spent money in America during the war but America Amer-ica spent a great deed in Europe, too, and attention to the fact is called by Albert PI. Laidlow in the current issue of the National Republic Re-public in "An American View of World Events." Much has been said by foreign newspapers and politicians and their sundry echoes in the United States about the amount of money spent in the United States by France ajrd others of the allies al-lies in the purchase of war supplies," Mr. Leadlaw says. "What the United States spent in Europe during the -ivar was never mentioned. men-tioned. The American government spent a 'billion dollars in France during the World War. It paid harbor . charges on vessels which carried American troops to France; it paid the railroads for carrying them to the front. It paid for training fields where American Amer-ican soldiers were prepared for battle. It bought ' supplies liberally in France. Two million American sodicrs; spent millions of dollars |