I jo diMeult to take many of the charges of wwarmongering which are. inde by Nat and Fascist spokesmen seriously. It is too easy to ote back fo the days. when the Gemocracles Srere being secured of "appeasement" without real consideration of Toe tutions which then existed to show thatthe only warmongers who then existed were. those who are. sow members of the Axis""And curlounly enough some of the principal accusers of the de-Tocracies for "appeasement are. 10 be found among the Nazis. They have forgotten that. The nly thing the followers of iller wanted before the outbreak of the war was an acknowledge: ment that they should be permitted to do what They. wanted, where they "wanted, without cppeation No" lew of) tahr or fustie ores are concerned, for Canada is by far the world's greatest producer of this necessary metal, Of world production as much as 95.2 per cent.
inaccessible to the Axis. Canada alone ae: counts for'89.5 per cent. of the world production. Before the war Germany laid in large stocks of these nctals, knowing that a shortage of them might well prove fatal to her cause. Experiments were conducted in substitutes, but the substitutes have not proved os satisfactory as the genuine metal, and In most cases have been expensive and slow to manufacture. The German expenditure of war material has not been great since the conclusion of the Blitzkrieg fon France, but during that campaign and the other which preceded' it the wastage was enormous. The replacement of the materials used fu these campaigns must have made a big ould be- allowed" to" Snterfere between hole in the Nest reservera hole which th them:
bie embiong, it "anyone can any ay sites or trem the lime the Sources of supply which are available to them. intransigent—an obstructionist. There was only Doubles this consideration is being borne In ope tight and that was the wil of the leaders mind by the Nazi General Staff, who would ian st ince September 3, naturally prefer to Keep good stocks on hand 1089, they have trad the opportunity to demon against the day when they will mest the armies strate this right. In Europe they have been of the Allies again in a major battle. They may atastrophleally successful, but only to a limited prefer to save everything against that. day, degree. Now that those who are fundamentally Father than expend more irreplaceable material opposed to their credo have had time to or-on campaigns which may.not prove'to be esse ganize, "they are meeting with a resistance tial to their ultimate victory. On the other han Which' they never suspected could materialize. the Allles and the United States have unlimited To quote Hitler himself Fesources of these metals from which to draw, and death. We are resolved. We are ready: They-are not hindered by the consideration that So far the Nazis' will has crushed litle outside their stocks must be conserved. This is an ad-the freedom of their neighbours. And it has vantage which must make itself felt before aroused the resolve of the rest of the world
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