Purchases by neutrals surrounding Germany show increases in some cases. Denmark's purchases were $50,000 in 1938 and only $20,000 in 1989. Holland on the other hand increased arms imports from America to $5,737,852 in 1939 from just over two millions the previous year. Norway's purchases were small but Sweden's jumped from $151000 in 1938 to $5,895,406 in 1939.
Turkey was a good customer in 1939, buying $3,174,979 as compared with only $151,114 in 1988.
Not all these purchases have yet been delivered, it is understood, these figures representing export licenses issued in the years mentioned.
The United States imported some arms during the same period, licenses amounting to nearly a million dollars in 1939 and a total of $1,787,122 for the years 1936-39, mostly for the account of arms and aviation companies,—Reuter.
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