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appropriation requirements of the Reich. These amounted
 
to 21.7 billion RM in the fiscal year 1938 and to 36.3
 
billion RM in the fiscal year 1939, To cover them there
 
were available as general budget means those receipts from
 
taxes, earned revenue and other income remaining after
 
deduction of the abovenamed correction items, that is, all
 
tax transfers, productive outlays and the like from the
 
revenue items entered in the Reich budget,
 
               b. The estimated financial requirements
               of the Reich and their probable
               coverage, in the .fi.scal year 1940,
 
     In consequence of the war, the financial requirements
 
of the Reich will be determined even more than in the 
 
preceding years by the needs of the armed forces. During 
 
the last half-year, the armed forces required on the average 
 
an expenditure of a good 3 billion RM a month, On the
 
assumption that the war will last until the end of the
 
fiscal year or else will determine the financing of the
 
Reich in the main, we can therefore calculate the expendi-
 
tures for the armed forces during the budget year at 
 
approximately 38 billion RM.
 
     The expenditures of the civil administrative authorities
 
will also rise further during the current fiscal year. Aid
 
is families, which took 1.5 billion RM in the fiscal year
 
1939, including only 7 war months, ought to demand more than