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of war than bombs or torpedoes,
The Nazis have exalted pro- paganda to a position it never occupied in any other State. It has heen for them a peacetime as well na war-time weapon. They hoped with its help to win the present struggle in Europe without striking
If they applied. more paychology, understanding of the mentality of olher peoples, to their propagandist enterprisus, they might be more successful. But the Germans were
How Long Will
War
The
ROM the very outset, the ultimate result of this war
has been a foregone conclusion.
No people could stand indefinitely against the odds stacked against Hitler-Germany.
All that is really in question is the probable length of time It will take to reach the inevitable end.
Not only had the chiefs of the German Army repeatedly warned the Fuehrer of the enormous military hazards of turmed | conflict with the -Western Powers under existing conditions, but
the German civil nuthorities also made the position plain.
Last April, for example, the official organ of the Reich Cham- ber of Economics published an article entitled, "How Long Could War Last?" pointing out that Germany did not command the ma- terial resources to fight a long war, and that her opponents had it, in their power to prevent the conflict boing a short one.
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WHY did Hitler disregard all this expert counsel?
Because, during the several years of preparation for totalitarian war, Nazism had so overstrained the economic system of the Third Reich that, at last, drastic mensures had to be taken to divert attention from impending bankruptcy and restore the waning prestige of the Fuehrer.
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Last?
They made prophecies:
* J. L. GARVIN in the Observer: "If the fbsolute air supremacy we require is rapidly created, we shall come in sight of true peace and the world's deliverance within six months.”
THE BRITISH WAR-CABINET have based their policy "on the assumption that war will last for throé pears or more."
AIR-MARSHAL SIR JOHN SALMOND: "I think the war is not going to be so long as the fant one, but I may be wrong."
DAVID LLOYD GEORGE, in the Sunday Express: "Three great and bravo nations, arıcă with every device for the destruction of human life and civilisation... are about to hurl those diabolical contrivances at cach other—for`ycars,” This article is an impartial survey. of Germany's economic position
by G. H. MORISON
He himself imagined that this might be accomplished by another lightning conquest which-assuming that Russia could be neu- tralised the Western Powers would not dare to contest.
Hitler made a mistake. Find- ing himself entangled in life-and-death conflict which he is powerless to shorten, he has how to face a long struggle in which the Western Powers will use every conceivable means of forcing Germany to spend her material resources without pro- fit.
Meanwhile, Germany will only be able to hold her own at all by rigid economy of what materials she already has; she will not dare to risk anything until sure that every projectile will hit. At the same time, she will have to wage a desperate campaign to widen her basis of supply..
will be how to maintain supplies Hitler's most urgent problems of food, petrol, iron, textiles, rubber, and non-ferrous metals like copper.
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-who spent many years in Berlin working for important American and British financial papers
"You have no right to any more food till you have lost another two stone."
IT is scarcely conceiva- ble that Germany should have been holding. any large war reserves of any of these vital necessities. This is fusing to let building proceed. evident from statements made by German official publications. For instance, the annual re-
power
-Prom GRINGOIRE, Paris,
for foodstuffs and
petrol, rubber, plastics-and, they assert, edible fats!--come from at egal base.
Where the whole scherno brenks · down is that if has been found im-
to possible
obtain anything like enough of the basle raw materials to keep all the new synthetic In- dustries going. Staple fibre syn- thetically produced from wood is a goud serviceable fabric. But Goer- ing himself, in П recent publie speech, had to admit that even now Germany is being forced to cut fifty per cent, more timber each year than! grows in her forests,
the
She cannot make up her deflcit by Increased import because there is a world-senreity in timber. it would. take forty to fifty years of forest- culture," said Goering, to increase timber output in Germany enough to meet present needs.
But the most catastrophic defeit is. in coul. Germany has vast coal de- posits, enough for all conceivable- needs for some hundreds of years. But it is not avaliable until it has:: teen mined?
Armaments and the new synthetle- industries have pushed the demand for con unt!! it hos for outrun the supply. To make one ton of synthe--
tons tie petrol four
of cool are. needed-two as raw material and twa ពង fuel. Every
new power ' works erected to electrify devours 800,000 able-bodied workers had more coal. descried the countryside. Al- According to one, recent oMeinl ERMANY held no ex- together, 300,000 milkcows had statement, Germany needs at once- 50,000 more coul miners. By the- tensive stocks of to be slaughtered because it end. of this year she will need an a blow, but in that they were dis-port for 1934 of the State-owned foodstuffs.
was impossible to obtain other 150,000 to keep going the new
synthetics factories about to bo- appointed.
This was revealed last June workers to milk them. bank through which the German
opened. Unable to rearm and maintain im- Government conducts transac- by Reich Minister for Agricul-
Coal mining is a job to which. Walther Darre, when, port of enough food and raw n worker must be born. Attempts lions with German Industry- ture
for current needs, Ger- to force other workers to tackle said that when Hitler came into opening the annual agricultural materials
ou the notorious this job soon showed that many embarked
thele- German industry held show at Leipzig, he declared Four-Year Plan. Its main object physique would not stand the strain. stocks of raw materials and that, despite superhuman ef- was to make synthetics and sub- To increase the output by about semi-finished products to the forts, Germany had only suc- stitutes
raw twelve and a half per cent. the work value of 20,000,000,000 reichs- ceeded in raising from her own materials from substances which con ing day of underground workers.
arbitrarily lengthened From marks about £1,000,000,000 at soil about 82 per cent, of the be obtained in big quantities within was
eight the Relch.
and three-quarter hours. At. par. This was a normal state food she needed.. of affairs needed to assure the
For example, aluminium can be frat there was a five per cent. in- In fats she was actually pro- extracted from common clay and crease in output, but this soon de- smooth running of the whole ducing only about 60 per cent. used to replace copper in electro clined because the miners could not
ob- endure the long hours and evaded: ware. Aluminium economic machine.
-and this included whale-oil technical
this way
them by reporting sick or by sabo- is enormously Towards the end of 1937 Der for making margarine, which is lined in
dear, but serves much the same pur age. Deutscher Volkswirt (the Ger- unobtainable during war.
pose an imported copper in time of then the Darro declared that very little war. Wpollen and cotton fibres man Economist), mouthpiece of Dr. Schacht, de- improvement could be expected could be synthesised from wood.
During mobilisation and the in- elared: "We are consuming until farming was mechanised
of Czecho-Slovakia Jast. UT the most important of vaslon B more than we are producing, and electrified, because Ger-
nil these new industrial March coal transport stopped. Mines: down when the dumps were. All our reserves of raw ma- many had not enough farm processes are based on the use of shut full, mutorial. Synthetle
Industry terials are exhausted. Unless labour.
SOUH TAL out of coal, we change our policy we shall
When at last the railways resumed. head straight for disaster."
|normal trafile lustry pounced on the coal on the dumps leaving the mines without any reserves.
į never good at understanding others.
And even as directed at their own
¦ people the Nazis' propaganda has at times shown serious cracks and deficiencies..
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That meant that the £1,000,- 000,000 worth of materials was gone,
There has never since then been any chance to replenish them. For immediately after- wards Austria and then Czecho- Slovakia were invaded-and the consumption of raw materials which have military significance immediately skyrocketed.
A noteworthy example was the manner in which the Graf Spea's first and last brush with British warshipe
mishandled Goebbels's department. Had such bungling beon committed by the should LAK JEJAS PIE JAREN ZA KADA JENTERINGA SA British Government,
never have heard the end of it from the Humburg gentleman. As It in, the errors made in announcing the closing activities of the Graf Spec did more than anything else to shake neutral faith in the trustworthiness of news made in Germany.
Goebbels's guiding muxim is, "The bigger the lie the better the pro- paganda." But there is danger in
Worse! Both of these ter- excess. A point is reached when no one can bo expected to belleve. ritories were great consumers of industrial raw materials for A notable recent example was the which Germany had to provide German claim to have shot down the supply, because when they about forty British aeroplanes in became part of the Reich these countries lost their chief sources what has been described as the
of foreign currencies and hence largest air engagement of the war. found their imports crippled. There was not nearly that number The famine of raw materials.
in the Reich then became so of British planes in the battle,
Though the crudencases of Ger- great that all materials had to be rigidly rationed. National man propaganda, are often all too defence projects made prior apparent, the British poople need to claima on all available supplies, be constantly on guard against it. and national defence projects do Some are strangely predisposed to not help to sustain imports: bellove that there must always bo economically they are "useless." Even the graveyards were something in the malicious In- raided to obtain meagre supplies ventions or pervertions of Hamburg. of Iron as scrap. House-build- "else the Germans would not having almost ceased, though the said it." The point is that German masses of workera wero propagandista will say anything clamouring for more and better which they think, will produce, housing accommodation. If abroad-or at home-the desired there had been any. reserves, effect. Truth simply does not enter Hitler would not have risked into the case.
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Germany has not reserves of coal. An event which occurred last sum- mer proves it.
At Rostock the power works or a dered more coal. They were told there was none available. Repro- sentations were made in Berlin. Rostock pointing out that it coat! was not forthcoming within two days the town would be in durkness... and industry at a standstill.
In desperation Berlin stopped all sen-going vessels in German Baltle
to discharge. ordered them porta, their bunker conl into trucks, which i were then linked up behind passen- ger trains and rushed to Rostock to.. keep the power works going.
The same thing happened at the Magdeburg gaaworks.
AVERY one. knows that i
petrol is the life-blood of modern warfare-without It mo-- Lorised vehicles, submarines, and! airplanes cease fire.
To fight a successful war, an army: must be able to use up peirol with-- out giving the question of supply a single thought, if any hitch occurs: in feeding petrol to the war ma-- chines, decisive battles might easily be lost.
Authoritative catimates made in Germany
the war sot! Just before nvailable atôčka et about a Avo months' peacetime consumption. 12" thero. is big-scale fighting, war-- time consumption might riso to two. or three or four times peaça- time consumption, even though rigid in civilian consumption is Certain military estimates of the petrel consumed by Germany in the Polish campaign suggest
that tho Reich used up over 40 per cent, of the nvaftable stocks! If this in true ev
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