Economic Replacements The military situation around Paris and the prospect of the loss of the French capital are naturally occupying the minds of all the Allies and their sympathisers to. the exclusion of nearly everything else. The fact remains, how-fever, that the military gains made by the Nazis fare fess important than the economic losses they might have inflicted in the occupation of valu-fable industrial areas and the destruction of [Some of France's greatest rioter manufacturing plants. As in China, so in France: It may some= times be better to sacrifice. space to time. The 'American pledge to put all the material resources of the United States at the Allies' disposal nullifies the French losses. For whatever else may be imagined, it is not to be thought for a moment that the industrial plants. will have been seized by the Nazis in any other [state than in ruins, and they will need months, it'not years, before they will prove an asset to the invaders. In the meantime, 1 the Citroen plant is put out of action, the' Allies can now Fely upon the output of the Ford plant in De-trait; if the Renault. factory is" razed, the Allies can get replacements for their mechanizfed units from the numerous factories in Amferica which can turn out material which equally as good. In short, the American pledge has made it impossible for Hitler, by means of disrupting the Allies' munitions centres, to cause the same shortage to be felt by" the opponents of force" as-is likely very soon to jeripple his prodigally-conceived—Blitzkrieg: Germany has no inexhaustible resources to fall back upon. On the contrary, the Nazis' new partner is more likely to be a drain on the Feady severely strained resources of Hitler than anything else. Hitler may be able to over-run fa large part of France, but by doing so he adds to his Tesponsibilities and does not help. in meeting the severe economic problems which fare arising in his rear, To the French It is to ture to. see paris of their beloved country cupied by barbarian hordes. But they and their [Allies can rest assured on at least one point that they will never be starved of the necessaries of war—that arms, planes, ships, food, medical aid, and the thousand and one things essential, will be forthcoming as a result of the pledge made by President Roosevelt at Charlottesville, Even without this pledge, defeat for the Allies, with their huge empire and its resources, would have been impossible. But with the pledge, the certainty of ultimate victory is doubly assured,
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