WHAT A BLOCKADE MEANS
"Do we fully realise what a blockade of Britain would mean to us?" asked Mr. C. P. Spender, Federal Treasurer of Australia. He was addressing the Sydney Economic Society. "Apart from its ultimate effect on our security," he said, "it would mean the damming up in this country of the greater part of our exports. Deprived of foreign exchange resources, we could not import. Apart from civil consequences, a great part of our war preparations would be held up as soon as existing stocks became exhausted. We would be called upon to reconstruct our entire mode of life and work; that is, if the chance of war still allowed us to do so."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 134, 7 June 1940, Page 10
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117WHAT A BLOCKADE MEANS Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 134, 7 June 1940, Page 10
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