March, 25.
The demands of a total war have brought about what fs little Jess than a revolution in British industry. This revolution is somewhat more drastic than anything which fol-Jowed Marshal Goering's declaration in Ger~ many that "guns were better than butter"; since German industry had never, even after the catastrophic defeat of 1918, been really geared into peace rather than war production. German industry had been modelled on a pattern which always had an ultimate war in mind, whereas Britain, the first to experience the industrial revolution, as it was called, developed from a mildly' artisan nation into the steam and metal producers of the later nineteenth century by a succession of what might appear to the rest of the world as happy, or unhappy, accidents. There was ile, if any, planning. The result was that when competition arose in a serious form, and other countries, taking advantage of the mistakes they had observed in the gradual British evolution into industrialism, improved on the British system, Britain looked as if she would be left far behind. In Germany, in particular, industrialization was planned. And it was planned with the object in view of ultimately having to battle against Britain's system. As a result it was more efficient in management, though less effective in many other things, among them the supply of materials for' manufacture.
When the Nazis came into power they re-alisod that the easiest way by which they could obtain materials for" manufacture was by fighting for them, It was a long way round to compete in world markets with a nation or nations—for by that time the United States and Japan were serious industrial rivals—for a supply of the essentials to keep thousands of factories busy. So the German Industrial potential was turned to war. Herr Hitler and his satellites preached racial doctrines—which would not hold water even by German scientific standards—and ded ed that the Germans needed living room, though they had plenty; but the, ultimate object of all this agitation was not to give every German "two aeres and a cow," but fo ensure that Germany had a monopoly of the world's raw materials, so that other industrial nations were reduced (o tilling their fields in order to provide their peoples with, enough to live upon and a little more, so that the German Herrexvolk might batten
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