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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 Germnan nation into a weapon of war. Will that weapon, -now that - he Is using it, break in his hands? Every possible strain must be put upon the German war machine, for if it collapses the war will be over,

It is the duty of the Ministry to help the military forces in putting that strain on Germany, while propaganda playa 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 ita 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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Consider the condition of Germany at the outbreak of war. For six and a half years Hitler the has forced sacrifices on German people' in order to make Germany self-sufficient, but Ger- many is still a very long way from being self-sufficient.

First, there is food. Broadly speaking, Germany is self- sufficient to the extent of about 80 per cent, in food supply.

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As regards wheat, Germany has enough. Last year's harvest. was excellent. But there is a be much greater. Sweden, in fact,

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alight shortage of meat and of may hold the key to Germany's By Donald Hodson.

Germany has access. And even

The Dutch Government is preparing against the possibility of immediate invasion by Nazi Germany.

cattle, fodder, a great deal of armaments industry.

The Russian economy has That this is now a serious which has to be imported. And

in peace time Germany has been carefully built up so as to there is a severe shortage of possibility none can doubt. Ger-fats.

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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.

eat more than civilians.

can Russia supply and through free, but Russian ports are such things as factory machin.. An invasion of Holland, whose

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, neutrality cannot be called in

After food there is the ques-

Food production has im- question in one particular and tion of raw materials vital for goes into the question thorough is a long way from the big indus- whose desire for peace has been Germany's war industries. Here ly and points out that the com- trial areas of Moscow and proved, but the standard of made manifest again and again, 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. no surplus to send to Germany, would be a crime against inter-

The most direct rail routes all except perhaps wheat which There are seven groups of exaggerated." national law and against the

raw materials absolutely neces- Leaving on one side the poll run through Poland, and even if Germany does not need. conscience of the world.

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, iron ore, metals other might be unwilling to help Ger- mitted too many crimes already than iron, rubber, timber, textile many to dominate Europe), it backwardness in transport re- Russia help-manganese, cotton,

fibres, and oil. In only two of must be remembered that unless mains as an obstacle. German timber and perhaps a little of 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 to the list.

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 по one. rest she is partly and in some to pay for any Russian aupplies,

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-seas. 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.

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She will be invaded, if invaded she is, simply because it seems expedient to Hitler to overrun another small nation for his war purpose.

weaker.

The threat against Holland

Some 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

use-Channel and make communica- ful to him as n jumping-off tion with Germany by way of Sea exceedingly ground for air raids on Britain. the North

He will not get his air bases 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 forces of Nature by flooding her land against the invader.

and French Navies, and as a further check on Germany, the Dardanelles are dominated by Turkey, an ally.

Nor, if invasion were success- There would remain to Ger- and ful, would it affect the ultimate many the land routes,

problematically, the Baltic. balance of the war. Britain is

Along the land routes Germany prepared to meet the weapon off can get wheat and oil-ample air attack as she has been wheat but insufficient oil-if she prepared from the day war can pay for them or supply goods in exchange. If not, Germany atarted.

It would but steel the resolu-has to commandeer them, and that means carrying the war tion of the British and French

into Hungary, Rumanin, Yugo- people to fight until Hitlerism Slavia, Greece. It might bo is finally defeated. ;

bloodless war, but all these 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 na- as neutrals.

tion would. provide—if it were, The same applies to Sweden, needed-die final evidence that who can supply Germany from there can be neither pence nor across the Baltic with the iron the civilised co-operation of ng Last year, in peace time, she im ore which is indispensable to her. tions in Europe so long as Nazi-ported 22 million tons of Swedish ism exists.

iron ore. Wartime needs would

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It is crystal clear from all this that Germany's outside supplies. are in a perilous position. It is

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perilous, through economic war- fare. It is also clear that economic warfare is far wider in its scope than military warfare, and in the long run of equal im- portance.

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Mr. Ronald Cross, the Minister of Economic Warfare in the War Government, is a 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.

His work at the Board of Trade will be useful to him in. this important new post. But It does not seem advisable that the final responsibility of such vitally important work should fall on a man who has never be-- fore held Cabinot rank.

The general direction of the war is in the hands of tho War Cabinet. This matter of economic warfare as well as our own economie defence and the co-ordination of that defenco with that of our Alles fe a supremely important part of the struggle: This field and the work of all executive depart- monta concerned with it should be made the special responsibility. of one of the War Cabinet Ministers.

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