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...other hand, the professor asserted, the defeat of Japan will be a decisive factor in a victory over Germany, since it will make available to the Allied powers such quantities of rubber, tin, petroleum and quinine as will tremendously strengthen our war effort. He stressed also that the defeat of Hitler, while Japan is still strong, might be followed by a noticeable divergence of purpose among the countries now opposed to Japan...
METALS Silver, despite its artificial price, has become so useful as a substitute for genuinely scarce tin, copper and other metals that the Treasury is going to release 40,000 tons from its own hoard. It has become so useful, indeed, that some of its friends think the No. 1 political metal may even be taken out of politics...
...Tin Pan Alley was still grinding its own powder for the war this week, but mostly its powder looked and smelled like corn meal...
Quarter-sphere defense may be feasible from a military viewpoint. Economically, Professor Spykman believes that it is hopeless "without the tin and the tungsten of Bolivia, the copper of Chile and the tungsten, wool and tanning products of the Argentine, our war industries would be seriously crippled even if we could produce in northern Brazil the materials -which now come from the tropical zones of Asia and Africa...