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...peacetime used to handle more than 1,000,000 tons of cargo per week, found scores of ships from all parts of the British Empire, South America, the Far East, unloading food and war goods for Britain, loading cargoes for export. With no passenger trade and with all Scandinavian and Continent traffic suspended, the port was far less bustling than normally, but workers employed (including crews) ran as high as 35,000 per day in August; warehouses were piled with grain, tobacco, flour, tea, rubber, sugar, meat, wool, timber, leather. At Tilbury Docks, which the Germans claimed to have destroyed...
...Propaganda Ministry and to the radio world at large, Rosenberg proclaimed a Nazi-dominated "Community of Fate" embracing Sweden, Norway and Denmark. "Fate," he declared, "so willed it that the German Reich has taken under its protection the entire territory from which once the German peoples migrated." Urging the Scandinavian countries, two of which are already Nazi-occupied, to appreciate the honor of German domination, he continued: "A small nation does not violate its honor when it places itself under the protection of a larger nation. . . . It may be understandable if a small nation will not let itself be ruled...
...that under isolationism we can prevent a Fifth Column of dissatisfied citizens by extending democracy to every American. Did Scandinavian democracy prevent the Quislings. And if we have dissatisfied citizens now, how will they be changed during a period of defensive crisis...
...isolationist groups admitted no official change: Lutherans, Catholics. German traditions played some part in Lu theran neutrality; but Lutherans of Scandinavian and Netherlands origin were no less stanchly isolationist...
...must buy abroad. Despite growing national concern over the lack of a domestic tin stockpile, U. S. exports of tin plate scrap were $19,872,000 for the quarter, up 361% from 1939. The quarter's exports of wood pulp, just before the outbreak of the Scandinavian war, jumped from 17,731 tons last year to 74,161 tons...