Registration, however, is a war measure. It is regarded as a step in the general mobilization of the human resources of this country to meet the urgent demands of the hour. sion of the Low Countries, most of the gold remaining in The Netherlands was moved hastily to Great Britain and thence to Canada and the United States. Much of the remaining Belgian gold was shifted to France and later to Britain, while France herself already had sent most of her gold to the United States and Canada before the German invasion.
Most of what remained is presumed io have been sent to Morocco and cne shipment is now in Martinique. still out of German reach. Though the gold holdings of Norway and Denmark were relatively small, part of the metal had left those countries before the German occupation.
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