Word: shared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Equal distribution of materials in the event of shortage or import limitation. Thus, if France needs copper and can get none and Britain has plenty on hand, Britain shall share the copper...
...Keynes added that British soldiers' pay might be raised similarly, by "the reward of deferred consumption" instead of cash. Instead of more pay now, Tommies would receive savings certificates ("bonus") which, when war ends, would enable them to share in the increase of consumer goods which would then ensue, thus benefiting both themselves and the national economy...
...sugar, rice are the more ordinary products; but copra as a basis for facial creams, lizard skins for shoes and handbags, Sumatra wrappers for cigars, cinchona bark for quinine, sandalwood and teakwood, ebony and macassar oil, and even the bare-breasted women of Bali, tourist paradise, do their full share in making this Netherlands overseas a going concern...
...Netherlands has the richest share: Sumatra, Java, the Celebes, most of Borneo, half of Timor and of New Guinea...
Britain acquired its share of New Guinea in two lumps: 90,540 square miles as a grab in 1883, 68,500 square miles as a League of Nations mandate from Germany in 1919. The Reich is of course not forgetting this. Hitler could use the rubber, coconut and sisal plantations of British New Guinea...