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...will almost certainly dwindle or it will have to be conducted on Germany's disadvantageous barter terms. And if Britain loses, Germany will have 60% of the world's merchant fleet. She will control the docks of the world either directly, or by economic pressure. A shipment of American typewriters will have small chance of quick unloading and delivery in Capetown, if competing German typewriters can be got to the customer first...
Evidently the sweeps by Britain's battle squadrons at both ends of the Mediterranean were to cover the passage of a big supply shipment, probably food and munitions, to Britain's forces in the Middle East along Britain's old Mediterranean life line, which was abandoned as too dangerous even before Italy mined the narrows between Sicily and Tunis. Italy or no Italy, Britain had apparently been able to reopen the route when she needed...
...Canadian volunteers (including expatriate Finns) who got to Finland, about 40 saw front-line fighting, 14 were killed. Some were unfit for soldiering. Many needed training, were still getting it at camps in northern Finland when the war ended. In Finnish towns where they were sent to await shipment home, the volunteers were so royally treated that many stayed...
...several good reasons. In the first place, specifications were changed so often that today much of the accumulated stores of parts cannot be fitted together into complete aircraft. In the second place, engines from Britain have not arrived. About six weeks ago Prime Minister Mackenzie King ordered such a shipment. They got as far as mid-Atlantic, turned around and rushed back to the beleaguered United Kingdom...
...vessels accepting charters for Russian ports), Russia for weeks cut down rnanganese exports to the U. S. Hence War Materials Coordinator Ed Stettinius saw to it that U. S. vessels were put in the Russian service last week. For further encouragement to Russia, about two-thirds of a shipment of machine tools, dies and machinery, deemed unnecessary to U. S. defense, were released in Tacoma for shipment to Vladivostok. Other shipments of standard, easily replaceable machine tools were expected to follow...