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Before Pearl Harbor the U.S. and Britain's fleets drew on the vast oil fields of the Western Hemisphere. Soviet Russia and the Armies of the Middle East had Baku and Batum. Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore were next door to the Dutch East Indies. The anti-Axis powers of the world controlled 97.5% of world production. It was as simple as that...
...Japanese have closed the United Nations' filling station in the far Pacific. Adolf Hitler, if he drives into the Middle East, may capture Baku and Batum. Then the Axis would not only have oil enough for its war machine (after destroyed mills and refineries are repaired), but would force the United Nations into complete dependence on the Western Hemisphere...
Many observers thought that the Nazis were planning, not a Battle of the Black Sea, but a Battle for Batum and its oil. Remembering the swift air-&-sea invasion of Norway, they pointed out that Transcaucasia is only 700 miles across the Sea from Bulgaria, less than three hours by troop-carrying plane...
...great shakes as a world producer or a world market, the Mediterranean bulked far larger as a world highway. Through Suez and Gibraltar poured a grimy stream of freighters carrying oil from Iraq, Iran and Russia's Batum on the Black Sea, mercury from Italy and Spain, chrome from Turkey, manganese from the U. S. S. R. Of these the U. S. had to worry only about mercury and manganese. But mercury is still available from Spain, and manganese is plentiful in Cuba, India, Brazil, the African Gold Coast, even (in low-grade form...
...model 1911 battle cruiser Yavuz (the onetime famed German raider Goeben) and other naval units into the Sea of Marmara lying between the Dardanelles and the Bosporus. Russia began maneuvers in the Black Sea after having laid mines off her main port Odessa and the oil port Batum...