INTERNATIONAL: Germany Leads

Unemployment, as statesmen are fond of stating, is "worldwide." Last week the International Labor Office at Geneva published statistics, admittedly "incomplete," tending to show how many people are jobless today in 20 countries:

Unemployed Population

Austria 158,000 6,526,661 Belgium 64,000 7,923,077 Canada 20,000 9,796,800 Czechoslovakia .... 37,000 14,523,186 Denmark 25,000 3,434,555 Finland 4,000 3,582,406 France 1,000 40,745,874 Germany 3,184,000* 62,348,782 Great Britain 2,100,000 44,173,704 Hungary 20,000 8,368,273 Italy 400,000 40,796,000 Netherlands 25,000 7,625,938 Norway 20,000 2,649,775 Poland 240,000 30,212,962 Palestine 5,000 852,268...

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