includes Rumania, Bulgaria and Hungary, as well as Yugo-
slavia, Czechoslovakia and some other states. These countries
went through hard times during the second world war. They
suilered badly in the war, they have been -greatly weakened,
and in any case they certainly cannot be classed among
those that grew rich on the war—leave aside the Soviet
Union, whose 'human and material losses were exceptionally
great. The Soviet Government has published the concrete
figures and facts of these losses for everyone to read. The
losses caused by the destruction of war and the rapine of
the invaders alone are estimated at 679,000 million rubles.
And if we take the Soviet Union's total expenditures o-n the
\var, they will exceed these losses, colossal as1 the figure is,
severalfold. Such is the postwar situation of the stales in
the Danube area.
There are, however, other states which were with us in
the Allied camp, but which fortunately suffered less than
the states I have just mentioned. And lastly, there are coun-
tries which, although they bore the heavy burden of
the struggle against our common enemy, have at the
same time succeeded in these past years in increasing
their wealth. Take, for example, the United Slates of
America.
Here in Paris everyone of you can find a 'Copy of the
"World Almanac, 1946." In this book you may read the fol-
lowing figures: the national income of the U.S.A. in 1941
was estimated at 96,000 million dollars, in 1942 at 122,000
million dollars, in 1943 at 149,000 million dollars, and in
1944 at 160,000 million dollars. Thus, in four years of the
war the national income of the U.S.A. rose by 64,000 million
dollars. The same book says that in 1938 the total national
income of the United States was 64,000 million dollars.
Hence the mere increase in the national income of the U.S.A.
during the war years was equal to its total national income
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