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Show SPOUTS, Oil GOVTS? Are we American people sports, or are we just plain goats? European countries owe the United Unit-ed States ten billion of dollars, loaned to them during the war against Germany. This money will soon be clue, and it is intimated that the allies either can not or will not play they intimate inti-mate the former, but we suspect the latter. Our friends across the water, it seems, do not want to pay us until after they have collected the money from Germany. And when they do get the money from Germany it is even possible that they will suddenly discover some more urgent and pressing need, of it. Makes a fellow feel fine, doesn't it? Quite sporty, or goaty, whichever which-ever term pleases you. Europe tells the United States it is short of sugar it must have sugar. su-gar. We too are short very short, but we send it to them, hundreds of millions of pounds. Of course that shoves up the price of what little we are able to buy ourselves. But that doesn't matter -o us f.'.orts, or goats. "We jut revel in coughing up lively for the benefit of our dear friends across the water. Why should we ask Europe to pay im the paltry ten billions of dollars they owe us? Would that be sporty or goaty? Why should we tell them they can't have our so,?ar, because we haven't rriough ourselves for our canning and our tables? Would a sport, or a goat, be so ungenerous? Why not .give them eveiything they want, and thank them for taking tak-ing it? Wouldn't that' be quite sporty, or tremendously goaty? Why not be a genuine sport or wholehearted goats, while we are about it? For isn't it quite jolly to be a sport, or supremely comforting or be a goat? You know! |