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Although armies now march as much on their gas tanks as on their stomachs, food is still a vital war material. With her conquests Germany now holds two-fifths of the green fields of Europe. France gave up the Paris Basin, which normally grew all the wheat she needed. Denmark, Europe's dairy and No. 1 world exporter of butter, was rifled of her stocks of butter, cheese, eggs, fodder, of her farm animals. Belgium, which just manages to feed herself, had no great surplus on hand, but The Netherlands had 2,750,000 head of cattle...
...conquests Hitler also destroyed most of the neutrals through whom he obtained a restricted flow of goods in spite of the British blockade. Italy, The Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark and Norway are leaks that have been plugged. Only Portugal, Spain, the Balkans and Russia remain, most of them strictly rationed by the blockade and with poor transportation systems for supplying him. Some copper, tin, a few other supplies can reach Germany by way of Vladivostok, but not in quantity. Germany cannot beat the blockade. She can only try to beat the blockader...
...Germany did not gain materially in wartime industrial strength, Britain lost enough to make Germany's conquests worthwhile. She lost access to Sweden's iron ore, Norway's refined and processed metals, dairy products from Denmark and The Netherlands, Scandinavian timber, Belgian steel, bauxite from France. But so long as she controlled the seas, had bottoms to carry goods in, ports to unload them at, she could call on the Empire and the Americas to replace what the Nazis had taken. In the folds of Britain's Pennine Range were 19% of the world...
...scarcely gone from the pass between the Wolfendorn and Sattelberg, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini sat down in a railroad car at Brennero station to plan their spring campaign against Great Britain and France. Twenty-two days later war began in Western Europe with a flanking movement into Denmark and Norway. Eighty-five days later Italy entered the war with a flanking movement against collapsing France. Ninety-nine days later France fell...
...Halifax were trying to appease Mussolini, De Man went to see Romains in Paris, told him of a scheme to have a peace conference called by one of the five sovereigns of northern Europe (Belgium's King Leopold, Norway's King Haakon, Sweden's King Gustaf, Denmark's King Christian, The Netherlands' Queen Wilhelmina). Four of them were to write to the fifth (Leopold) urging him to save the peace of Europe; then Leopold was to appeal to Chamberlain, Daladier, Mussolini and Hitler. A reversal in world affairs would be achieved by the gentle...