The= Chancellor of the 'Exchequer's .statement of some of the
figures relating to the cost of the War- is• not likely to -be read'hy-many- people, as-it-is a-list of -forbidding `tgeares. 'This is a pity, •because •such statistics provide .good anti--war -propaganda. 'Nearly a million men, and nearly £10,000,000;000 is a- terrifyiqg' total-to have paid ' for the spectacle vfiEurope as- §he- is-now. It is always ' depressing- to pay for a meal after one -has eaten . it, especially when one feels- the worse for it. Some of the minor expenses incurred since • the end of the -War are - the most irritating -to read about. 'For instance, our position with regard to Turkey is profoundly -unsatis- - factory. In fact, it- could scarcely: be -worse ; so that one -wonders whether the £20,000;000 spent on the occupation of Constantinople could- not- have -been more advantageously employed in other -ways. Unemploy- ment might have -been relieved, - clergymen's salaries might have been raised. hospitals -might have been endowed.
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