Letters, May 10, 1948

More Goods, Less Hot Air?

Sir:

Reading through your valuable news magazine, and through other American organs, I am not too amazed to find the current supposition that Americans have now become the world's champion philanthropists, and the only saviors of sorrowing mankind . . .

Nothing could be farther from the facts . . .

Until the U.S. has matched Canada's two billion dollars' worth of loans and gifts to Europe since the end of the war (Uncle Sam's comparable contribution, based on national income, would be around $39 billion), it would make for...

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