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(a) and 460 million on assumption (b). But thesesums are far below the annual charge of her obliga-tions towards the United Kingdom and the UnitedStates , which, converted into gold marks on the samebasis as that employed above in the case of France ,amounts to 1000 million gold marks per annum.

III. The Assistance of New States

I have reserved above, out of the claims of GreatBritain , a sum of one milliard gold marks, with theobject, not that she should retain this sum for herself,but that she should use it to ease the financial prob-lems of two states for which she has a certain re-sponsibility, namely Austria and Poland .

Austria 's problems are well known and attracta general sympathy. The Viennese were not madefor tragedy; the world feels that, and there isnone so bitter as to wish ill to the city of Mozart .Vienna has been the capital of degenerate great-ness, but, released from imperial temptations, sheis now free to fulfil her true role of providing fora quarter - part of Europe the capital of com-merce and the arts. Somehow she has laughedand cried her way through the last two years ; andnow, I think, though on the surface her plight ismore desperate than before, a very little help will beenough. She has no army, and by virtue of thedepreciation of her money a trifling internal debt.Too much help may make of her a lifelong beggar ;