Despite these difficulties, he added, Germany, thanks to her diligence, has more industrial products than' she needs. "She is now ready to tell the world that she is prepared to engage in a trade for articles and raw materials which she lacks partially or completely," he continued. However, it is the vital principle of German economics that, in the presence of u tightening of our financial situation, we can in no event import more than we can export."
"Germany is ready to settle this question outside all considerations of Political potentiality," the Minister asserted.
He affirmed that Germany's autarphical regime is but a legend. "Germany practices autarchy only in the limits to which she is compelled by the narrowing of her economic position and by the vital needs of her people," he added.
Dr. Goebbels then referred to the Four Year Plan "which is destined to make Germany's economic situation as independent as possible of raw materials imports."
After eulogizing the quality of Germany's ' ersatz' materials, Dr. Goebbels examined the question of manual labour, or rather the lack of it. "The most urgent problem is that of the increasing scarcity of manual labour which has resulted in the necessity of the intensive rationalization of our economic system," he Another incendiary bomb, the second within 24 hours, was found by the postal authorities in a parcel addressed to a high official of the Scotland Yard today.
According to experts, the bomb was timed to explode approximately upon its arrival at the Yard.
Two detectives have been busy this morning looking through all mail addressed to Buckingham Palace, Parliament, the various Ministries, and the residences of the Prime and Home Ministers—Havas.
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