'To, the' Editor of the "NoxtH-Cuiva Dairy News."
Sin,—Has it over been computed, guessed at, as. to how Villions of mavis the Germans made ten or a dozen years ago, in the most gigantic national swindle of modern times? 1 refer to the times when the printing presses in Gerynany turned out marks as long gullible international public could got to buy them, This is euphemistically referred to by one of your correspondents as the "collapse" of the mark, In the: same spirit in which indemnity is spoken of as "tribute."
T recall the Inst quotation I ceived, who was caught to the tent of twenty thousand smackers, was. seventy trillion paper marks In buying marks then admittedly was gambling, but T-did not know the dice were loaded, Be that ax it may, I have always considered "I contributed towards payment of the German debt, Ave my economies unsound? Leas.
ighai, Dee, 16, 1931, Millions of Germans who lost without gambling much higher amounts and more then Mr. Leag and hi friends, By the way as far as I remember we counted 1,000 millions equal to one "mil and 1,000 milliards equal to' one One billion was equal to one Rentenmark (to-day Reichsmark).
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