The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-17
BOWRON TALKS UNI
 ALLIES VAR GAINS. AND DEBTS TO J. S.|
"Americanized EngIishman" Answers Proposed Cancel Iation of Obligations
 in Open Letter

In response to suggestions that the United States cancel the debts of the allies, James Bowron, chairman of the Gulf States Steel company, calls attention strikingly to what the allies got out of the war as con trasted to what the United States did not get.
 Mir. Bowron has written 6 letter to T, B. Macaulay, president of the Sun Life Insurance company of Mon treal. in response to MT. Macaulay'z article, "The Allied Debts to the United States" Mir. Bowron says he writes as an "Americanized English man." and here are the things he points out as existing at the end of the war when victory had been made possible by the United States:
 Gains of Nations
 "England was made secure at sea by the surrender and sinking of the German fleet. She became mistress of the colony of East Africa and of German Southwest Africa. making secure her Cape to Cairo route. Her merchant tonnage sunk during the war was extensively replaced by German mercantile tonnage surren- dered Her Australian colonies also were benefited by the expulsion of the Germans from the Caroline and Marshall Islands and their division among the allies.
 France received the return of AL Lorraine. in itself a very sub stantial compensation for the devas- tation of her industrial provinces. Her destroyed material was largely recompensed by the surrender of thousands of locomotives and rail- road cars from Germany, and her safety further secured by deprivlng Germany of the great ore mines to the east of Metz, thus transferring dominance in the steel trade from Germany to France. The destruction of her coal mines in the Lens dis trict was offset by treaty require ment by the supply of coal and coke from Germany for period of years. Her military safety was safeguard ed by the destruction or surrender of heavy and light artillery, rifles. shells, airplanes, etc, on the part or the Germans.
 ''Denmark received for It's benevo- lent neutrality the return-partly immediately and partly delayed and conditional-Schlesw Holstein pro- vinces taken in 1884 by Germany.
 Russia was further protected by taking away from Germany part of ancient Poland and returning 1t to the new Poland. Austria was treated likewise.
 "Italy was benefited by the re- tarn of the Trentino and :, y tho dis memberment of her ancient enemy. Austria, that country being carved into three or even four. and Czecho- Slovakia, Hungary and Jugoslavia constituted out of the fragments.
 "Rumania was helped territorily by the cession of Bessarabia. Greece, di- vided between two factions. one pro- ally and the other pre-German, was rewarded at that time by eastern Thrace and various Aegean islands.
 Japan increased her island em-. pire in the Pacific at Germany's ex- pense.
 "Chlna was compensated by the re- turn to her of Kiaochow after its capture by the Japanese.
 U. s. Got No Territory
 Thus every nation participating actively in the war received terri te rial advantages except the United States; but there were further very  important economic matters de- veloped through the war, some of which are still pending and unset tied. and some of which have been changed or are now subject to change by subsequent political de- velopment-but my argument Is not affected by that fact. l refer to such matters as the acquisition of control over Mesopotama, the land of un- rivaled fertility and potential source of oil supply of great impor- tance; also to the mandate given to England over Palestine and to France over Syria; and the relinquishment of Turkish suzerainty over Egypt. thus giving very important economic advantages to England and France. What advantage in land. in trad ing facilities, or in money has been offered to or sought by the United States in return for an expenditure of money which has trebled our taxa ton for the present generation and has brought the babiliments of mourning and the>panss of sorrow to tens of thousands of homes?
 Made Unselfish Fight "The United States fought unsel- fishly in Europe and withdrew