TIGHTENING THE BLOCKADE
AMERICANS CAN HELP REF I SAL TO TRADE WITH AXIS POWERS The British Minister of Economic Warfare, Dr. Hugh Dalton, in a broadcast to the United States on the blockade showed how Americans could give further aid by extending and tightening export control and refusing to trade with firms friendly to the Axis and denying port facilities to neutral ships likely to be blockaderunners. He reminded listeners that the blockade would shorten the war and indicated that the enemy's oil position could ■b» measured in months, not years. He said:— “There will be a great and growing scarcity as looted stocks of oil, rubber and copper are used up. The Germans are back where they were before, or worse. The war must last • long while yet, but the end is sure."
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 285, 4 December 1940, Page 3
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134TIGHTENING THE BLOCKADE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 285, 4 December 1940, Page 3
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