NAPLES TO ROME
COST AMERICA 6,700,000,000 DOLLARS WASHINGTON. June 13. The Secretary of the Treasury, Mr Henry Morgenthau, in a speech revealed that it cost 6,700,000,000 dollars to march from Naples to Rome and 6 000,000,000 dollars to capture the Marshall Islands. " I leave it to you," he said, " to estimate the cost of the march from Rome to Berlin and from the Marshalls to Tokio. The war has alreadv cost 200,000,000,000 dollars, and will probably cost an additional 95' 000 000,000 dollars before the end of 1944."
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Evening Star, Issue 25201, 14 June 1944, Page 6
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88NAPLES TO ROME Evening Star, Issue 25201, 14 June 1944, Page 6
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