SCARCITY IN ENEMY COUNTRIES
While geography shows that the blockade of Germany and Italy cannot be watertight, the blockade can be, and is. an effective means of making certain war-needed commodities scarce and dear. . Among the articles regarding which the enemy Powers feel the pinch of scarcity, Dr. Hugh Dalton, Minister of Economic Warfare, lists oil, alloys for hardening steel, lead, copper, textiles, and rubber. The existence of German substitute articles of inferior quality, and of high cost in time and labour, can be regarded as proof of the serious scarcity of the commodities for which they are substitutes. Thus the extent of the enemy's ingenuity is :in some degree the extent of his need. J)g 9 Ptif' nn
illustrates this point by producing, from a wrecked German aeroplane, a rubber cable containing not the usual copper wire but a laboriously wrought and inferior substitute. Herein is a sidelight on the air war, which Britain hopes to carry on, with increasing superiority in material, in trained man-power, and in morale. From quality superiority Britain will pass to quantity superiority^ partly by virtue of the scarcity which her blockade imposes on the enemy, and which will not be relaxed because of German pretences that the blockade does not matter.
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Evening Post, Volume c, Issue 82, 3 October 1940, Page 10
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