"Hleasures have also been taken to censure that Hitler will not draw sustenance from outside sources, Not merely Germany, but controlled territories will be unable to carry on trade on any scale with the outside World. 'The blockade operates over wide area, which must' become more and more' impoverished as its trade arteries are cut, Hitler will continue to seize all food and materials he can from overrun territories, but once he has despoiled his victims, his supplies will either "cease or' become much less plentiful.
"Hitler boasts he possesses Jimited quantities of fron, Iron, he possesses in great quantities, and he has probably no need to fear a short Age of aluminium. But his colonial situation is diferent, and in supplies, will henceforth be. seriously short He may sit upon mountains of iron ore, but as he has not the coal whereby it can be smelted, it will not be of first-class military—value. In a normal year, this country. exons some 30,000,000 tons of coal to the "continent of Europe. None of that will henceforth fall' into the hands of Germany.
As regards oil, of 20,000,000 tons normally consumed throughout I Jen's "territories. per annum, he can hope to produce or procure not more "These are mere pointers to the situation in which Hitler finds self economically. When the pinch comes, as it will sooner or later in a hundred different directions, it 13 more than doubtful whether the subdued people. in Germany: and other Jands will be prepared, oF able, to stand the strain Yet we must and strength has been devoted to one! single purpose—the preparation the strongest and "most. terrible: fighting force the world has ever seen,
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