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...less an authority than Britain's Ministry of Economic Warfare came up last week with the old, hitherto wishful story that Germany is running out of oil. This time MEW said officially, flatly, that German oil production from all sources had fallen to half the essential needs of the German armed forces. Supporting evidence: bombs have destroyed at least half the Reich's synthetic oil plants, knocked out all Rumanian refineries (except possibly "Romano-Americana," formerly owned by Standard Oil of New Jersey). Rumanian crude must be carried to German refineries by vulnerable railroads or Danube barges, then...
Optimists Down. Such reports from Germany are often 30 to 60 days behind current facts. But sober MEW men believed last week that Germany's economy was still in a process of deterioration, not collapse. If they were right, Nazi Germany can still take a lot of beating from the air and on the fronts...
...First Relief got over the divide. The huts in the first camp were buried so deep the seven men could not see them. They called. "Something like a woman came up out of a hole in the snow." Others "crawled up the ramp of frozen snow to mew at the seven men from beyond the mountains. . . . They looked like mummies...
...country can be crushed by the "white war" of economic blockade, it should be Japan. The general staff of such a war is Britain's Ministry of Economic Warfare (MEW). Mindful of how Britons had lulled themselves through eight months of World War II with faith in the power of blockade, last week MEW set out to disillusion them about their newest adversary. Their opinion: war with Japan would be a long, slow process...
Elaborating for the Ministry, gloomy, balding MEW Chief Dr. Hugh Dalton declared that Japan probably has resources of food for three years, of oil for at least 14 months, of rubber for a long, long time...