Show far ar CO coste ats reich 72 of income ration ratio in u s would c me reach geach in year for defense G T ON germany germanas Germ anys s war 1 RA bill nn in t the he early months of 1941 ti e running at the enoris annual rate of inu ti which is 72 per pent cent of larks national s income of 00 marks the commerce dep depart ari 00 o allent reports official german rate of ex i at t the the marks change but d amount to ause of the many types of ger because currency no accurate trans 1 man alion into dollars is possible te the last estimate of great brit ins annual expenditures in this the about arwas was i war united states expects to spend this au all purposes including de apar ear for y anse 17 I 1 if we were to f devote sevot felise e as high a percentage of our expected national income for 1941 to defense as germany is to her war effort the bill would be i taxes believed rising the marks germany is expending for war purposes do cot include the costs of occupation imposed upon norway denmark the netherlands belgium and france says H arnold quirin of the finance division of the commerce department who was responsible for the study france alone pays tion costs of marks annually detailed budget data have not been published since the beginning of the german rearmament program rilin b but ut the t trend end of tax receipts mi d acl disclosed sed borrowings afford an indication 0 n 0 of f t the he iacre increasing asing expenditures in the second half of 1840 1040 they were running at an annual rate of about marks assistant finance minister fritz reinhardt beinhardt of germany declared recently that all indications point to in an increase in german tax revenues amin ram an estimated marks in the current fiscal year ending ending march 31 to in lasu 42 and that the wartime con of german communes and other miscellaneous revenues will yield feld an additional total sum available dr reinhardt also placed the total disclosed indebtedness including tax certificates at marks at the end of 1940 this represents an increase of during the second half of 1940 if borrowings rate the continue at this total amount available from reich sources for wartime ex expenditures will reach 72 in the marks coming year year though neither total actual expenditures tures nor those for military arld and non nonmilitary military known purposes are hitler stated at the beginning of the war that germany had spent marks in war preparation this will be the total cost of the full united states defense program according to some computations though others have placed it higher the total disclosed amount available for all german expenditures accumulated since april 1 1933 reached marks by june 30 30 1939 and probably by august 31 1939 in the 18 months from july 1939 to december 1940 apparent expenditures were marks or nearly equal to the in the six fiscal years from 1933 to 1939 germanys germanas Germ anys disclosed public debt at the end of 1940 was marks |