"We must export in order to buy foodstuffs and secondly, we must—since this export needs raw materials which we do not have—export still more to cover these raw materials.
"And if foreign statesmen threaten us with I do not know what economic counter-measures, I can only say that in such case a trade war of despair would begin which would be an easy one for us. It would be easier than for the saturated other nations because the motive for our economic battle would be a very simple one, namely, the German people either live meaning export or die, as for its live—meaning export—or die. As for its leaders, I can only state they are ready for everything.
"That we must devote such a high per cent. of our national labour to armaments which in themselves are not productive, is regrettable, but cannot be changed. In the last analysis, the economy of the Third Reich stands of falls with the security of the state.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.