939
ncounter would position appears at the moment to produce more. But at the present
ere are four ma- be reasonably favourable.
Last time Germany's imports from Ru- mania are small, Special transport r successful war year's harvest-according to the facilities would have to be provid- -not necessarily official returns-was sufficient to ed. Moreover, Rumanian oil does ance the ability
cover Greater Germany's demand. hot provide the qualities which are civil population The ment position is barely satis- required for aeroplanes. Again, the supply of in-
factory, and there is the now cua- Germany's allies especially Italy ials, the capacity tomary extreme lack of dairy pro- would require oil, and Rumanía nts, and the sup- ducts and fats. Here, no progress at is the only main European gupplier. h-power. In none
all is being made. In peace-time In other words, without Rumanian its is the German Germany's food resources are suf- oil it is difficult to see how Germany
pressive that 'it
ficient to enable her to carry on. In can hope to solve her oil problem, war-time, production would be like- and even with it the problem would
same time not be solved. ly to fall, and at the more consumption would be requir- more than ny is to the ex- ed-for soldiers eat
emphasise the
s food supply is
er cent, self-suf- workmen. By an intensification of
NO SELF-SUFFICIENCY Much the same considerations ap-
the
bly, and her posi- rationing, by commandeering food ply to iron ore-number 2 in
NGTH
ANALYZED
substantially im- supplies from Eastern Europe, and list of war essentials.
WAR MATERIAL INADEQUACIES
ex-
The con-
sources.
quisition of Cze- by maintaining some imports from sumption of iron ore required to Lavish subsidies the neutral countries under threat maintain the steel industry at ca- se of the propa- of making war on them, Germany pacity is of the order of 30 million Government has would be able in war-time to main- tons a year. Of this, as much as um effort to in- tain some sort of food supply. But one-half by weight (but much less production. But there would be no margin at all for in iron content) is produced inside dy migration of further restriction. Compared with Greater Germany, Last year, 22 mil- and, and there is the position in the· World War, lion tons of ore were inported, from The Nazi Press it when rationing of bread, meat and Sweden, from Lorraine, and from
rk of those who fat was not even introduced until Spain and miscellaneous ad their inability 1916, and when food shortage caus- The key to the armament production etion. The grain ed the collapse two years later, the is Swedish ore; for it is of the best
position is particularly unsound.
quality. In time of war, it would be technically impossible to replace it by the low-grade domestic ore The inadequacy of Germany's which is being developed for the Hermann Goering works-impossi- domestic production of necessary war materials is well known. There ble, at any rate, without great in- are seven important groups of in- creases in the supply of cake and In the dustrial materials of which an al- of blast furnace capacity. most inexhaustible supply is need- "best" war from Germany's point ed for the successful prosecution of of view, of course, the Swedish ore imported, although war. These are oil, iron ore, non- could still he ferrous metals, timber, rubber, coal the Lorraine ore would hardly be
(Continued on Page 21) and textile fibres. Unless these can be produced at home, imported for cash, or commandeered, it is tremely difficult to carry on a war. In only two out of seven of these groups-coal and timber-is Ger- many self-sufficient. Let us con- sider, for example, the oil position. In peace-time, Greater Germany probably consumes about 61⁄4 mil- lion tons of oil and petrol. In war- time, the civil consumption would be drastically reduced, but Army, Air Force and Navy would swallow up enough, according to some German sources, to require total supplies of 15-20 million tons. The current domestic production is rather less than 2 million tons. This output could be increased in time of war, at a tremendous cost in coal, labour and capital invest- ment-four tons of coal are requir- ed to make one ton of petrol. It is difficult, however, to see how home oil production could exceed 4 million tons, leaving at least 8 mil- lions, and perhaps as much as 16 millions to be provided otherwise. The Rumanian supply could, under German control, probably be panded to as much as 7-8 millions tons. Indeed, în one year it might
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