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WHAT ECONOMIC WAR
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HE Ministry of Econo- mic Warfare is the most potent depart- ment on the home front in the war to end Hitlerism.
For six and a half years Hitler has been hammering the German nation into a weapon of war. Will that weapon, how that he fa using it, break in his hands? Every possible strain must be put
German upon the machine, for If It collapses the war will be over.
war
It is the duty of the Ministry to help the military forces in putting that strain on Germany, while propaganda plays its part in weakening internal support. for Hitler,
Economic warfare is the opposite of Hitler's dream of a lightning war of conquest. It is slow to get going, it takes a long time to make its effect, but in the long run it is irresistible.
To-day we are in a position to wage economic warfare, Hitler· is not. We have ample means of defence against such warfare, Hitler has few. And If it is to
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Holland Waits
The Dutch Government preparing against the possibility
of immediate invasion by Nazi Germany.
That this is now a serious possibility none can doubt. Ger- man troops are massed on the.
stamina to see it through.
Consider the condition of Germany at the outbreak of war, or six and a half years Hitler has forced sacrifices ол the German people in order to make Germany self-sufficient, but Ger- many is still a very long way from being self-sufficient,
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was excellent. But there is a be much greater. Sweden, in fact, slight shortage of meat and of muy hold the key to Germany's cattle fodder, a great deal of armaments industry. which has to be imported. And there is a severe shortage of fats.
By Donald Hodson
Germany has access. And even
The Russian economy has
in peace time Germany has been carefully built up. so as to Finally, we must consider the found difficulty in fulfilling ex- make Russia independent of Germany, in fact, is on a low position of Russia. If we port orders. War is bound to foreign supplies, and the stage
eat more than civilians.
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for an attack appear to be in there is not much of a margin pact contains
duction is only being used for provisions for export business. train, although even yet, of for further restriction. Hitler
Then there is the problem of export in order to pay for must maintain his food supply Russian supplies in time of war, course, the threat may not be and even improve it, for soldiers then the question arises what transport. The Baltic may be necessary raw materials and translated into action.
can Russia supply and through free; but Russian ports are such things as factory machin- what channels can she supply it. frozen for the greater part of ery which she cannot yet make
An article in the "Economist" the year. Moreover, Leningrad herself. After food there is the ques-
Food production has im- tion of raw materials vital for goes into the question thorough- is a long way from the big indus- Germany's war industries. Here-ly and points out that the comtrial areas of Moscow and proved, but the standard of Germany's position is very much mercial assistance Russia can Magnitogorsk, and Russian rail- living is still low, and there is give Germany "can easily be ways and roads are not good. to surplus to send to Germany, The most direct rail routes all except perhaps wheat which seven groups of exaggerated."
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An invasion of Holland, whose neutrality cannot be called in question in one particular and whose desire for peace has been made manifest again and again, would be a crime against inter-
conscience of the world.
to the list.
weaker.
There are
national law and against the raw materials absolutely neces Leaving on one side the poli- run through Poland, and even if Germany does not need.
sary for carrying on a war. They tical difficulties (that Russia Poland were conquered, Russia's Only in a few things could But Nazi Germany has com-are coal, iren ore, metals other might be unwilling to help Get backwardness in transport re- Bussin help-manganese, cotton, mitted too many crimes already fibres, and oil. In only two of must be remembered that unless mains as an obstacle.
than iron, rubber, timber, textile many to dominate Europe), it
German timber and perhaps a little oil- to trouble about adding another these-coal and timber-is Ger- Russia provides credit, which rolling stock is of a different, and much organisation would be needed before they became avail. many self-sufficient. For the is unlikely, Germany would have gauge and therefore useless.
Finally, one must consider able for Germany. Holland threatens no one. rest she is partly and in some to pay for any Russian supplies,
of these cases entirely dependent or provide goods in exchange; what Russia can supply, presum- on foreign supplies, some of them that, in fact, Russia would be ing that Stalin is not going to over-sens. If we can cut off no more use in this respect than dislocate the Russian economy these supplies-or part of them any neutral country to which to help Hitler.
-Germany will be crippled.
She will be invaded, if invaded she is, simply because it seems expedient to Hitler to overrun another small nation for his war
purpose.
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The threat against Holland
Somo of Germany's supply comes because Herr Hitler con-channels are in our hands. If ceives that the Dutch coast, we declare a blockade of Ger- many, we can close the English like Denmark, might be Re-Channel and make communica- ful to him as a jumping-off tion with Germany by way of ground for air raids on Britain. the North. Sen exceedingly He will not get his air basca difficult. With the Italian Fleet neutral, the Mediterranean would casily, Holland will fight if in- be in the hands of the British vaded, and call to her aid the and French Navies, and as a forces of Nature by flooding her further cheek on Germany, the Dardanelles are dominated by land against the invader.
Turkey, an ally.
Nor, if invasion were success- ful, would it affect the ultimate
There would remain to Ger- and many the land routes, problematically, the Baltic. balance of the war. Britain is Along the land routes Germany prepared to meet the weapon of can get wheat and oil-ample air attack as she has been wheat but insufficient oil-if she
the day prepared from
war can pay for them or supply goods started.
in exchange. If not, Germany It would but steel the resolu- has to commandeer them, and tion of the British and French that means carrying the war into Hungary, Rumania, Yugo- people to fight until Hitlerism Slavia, Greece. It might bo is finally defented,
bloodless war, but all theso And to the rest of the world countries, if under the heel of a brutal attack upon yet an-Germany, would lose their rights other small and peaceable nn-as neutrals.
tion, would provide-if it were The same applies to Sweden, needed the final ovidence that who can supply Germany from there can be neither peace nor
across the Baltic with the iron the civilised co-operation of na- Last year, in peace time, she im- oro which is indispensable to her. tions in Europe so long as Nazi-ported 22 million tons of Swedish ism exists.
Ta' iron ore. Wartime needs would
GRIN AND BEAR IT
It is crystal clear from all this. that Germany's outside supplics. are in a perilous position. It is
By Lichty for us to make them even more
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perilous, through economic war- fare. It is also clear that. economic warfare is far wider in its scopo than military warfare, and in the long run of equal im- portance.
Mr. Ronald Cross, the Minister of Economic Warfare in the War Government, Is 1 merchant banker who became a Conserva- tive M.P. in 1981 and has work- ed his way up to the position of Parliamentary Secretary of the Board of Trade..
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His work at the Board of Trade will be useful, to him in this important now post. But. it does not seem advisable that the final responsibility of auch vitally important work should fall on a man who has never be- fore held Cabinet rank.
The general direction of the war is in the hands of the {War Cabinet. This matter of economic warfare as well as our own economic defence and the co-ordination of that defence with that of our Allies is a supremely important part of the struggle. This field and tho work of all executivo depart ments concerned with It should bo made the special responsibility of one of the War Cabinet. Ministers.