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They could believe there might have been traitors and spies in far-off Scandinavia, in Belgium, perhaps in France; that a fifth column might now be operating in South America (see p. 32}. But they were still half-inclined to credit Hitler's outburst last week, denying that there was any such thing as the fifth column, denying any Nazi concern with...
...World War. ... If this war is long continued, there is but one implacable end . . . the greatest famine in history." Foreign experts of the Department of Agriculture reached pretty much the same conclusion. The blockade by Allied men-of-war, tightened rather than weakened by Nazi gains in Scandinavia and the Low Countries, taxed the stamina of Central Europe. As additional Channel ports fell into Nazi hands the prospect of a severe counter-blockade by Nazi U-boats and planes threatened Great Britain. >Germany expected to loot enough to eat till autumn, hoped by then to have conquered enough more...
Britain herself, Viton concludes, is in for a worse industrial collapse than that of 1920. Her Latin American markets are already being annexed by the U. S., and she is liable to lose trade in Scandinavia, the Balkans, parts of the Empire as well. With her exports reduced, thanks to labor shortage and lack of shipping, she must liquidate foreign securities to buy imports. She will lose her financial supremacy to the U. S. and thus her strongest bond with the Dominions. The problem of feeding the island population during the war will be slight compared with the difficulty once...
...control. In terms of tonnage, this is important because five-sixths of Norway's merchant fleet, the world's fourth largest (4,834,902 tons), is within the Allies' reach and out of Germany's at ports around the world. In conducting their blockade of Scandinavia, the Allies need no longer judge between essentials for the Scandinavians and possible contraband for Germany. Though stretched and strained a bit by new German threats from Norway's headlands, the northern blockade can now be absolute...
...London, this Gallipoli Day was another bad one for Winston Churchill and his war colleagues in the Chamberlain Government. For out of Scandinavia crackled a story which, on a smaller but similarly bloody scale, charged another blunder like that of the Gallipoli beachheads. It was a story written at white heat by white-haired War Correspondent Leland Stowe of the Chicago Daily News, after he visited the Northwestern Expeditionary Force near its beachhead at Namsos, Norway (see p. 22). Mr. Stowe wrote, in indignation, of two advance battalions of raw British troops, without artillery, antiaircraft, supporting planes or even white...