"Needless to Say, there is a close connection between the two phases of an economic war. Fundamentally, negative economic warfare is more tal than the positive variety, since is the economic strength of a coun-y which determines the extent to which it is able to wage economic hostilities of a positive character.
in examining the present economic position of Japan, we find that the prosecution of the China affair has cost the nation a tremendous amount of material. The hostilities in China may be blamed to a large extent for the shortage of commodities we are suffering at the moment. However, there is no suggestion that Japan's economic strength has been drained to any serious extent.
"At the some time, we have gained access to valuable new material resources. The programme for the expansion of industrial production, in progress at present in Japan, Manchoukuo and China, has yet to bear its fruit. It must be brought to perfection before there can be an appreciable increase in—Japan's economic strength.
"The role cut out for this country in the development of resources in East Asia will have to be taken into consideration in any estimates concerning the future economic strength of Japan.
First gf Neweastle-on/Tyne he appealed for 100,000 women for war work, mainly shell filling. even before the registration of women for such work comes into force. Provision, he said, would be made for the minding of children of married women workers with Government financial aid, day at nursery centres-
Later at Newcastle Mr. Bevin told a press conference that he was making another urgent appeal this week to men who had drifted daring the depression to other industries to return to shipbuilding to take
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