AMERICAN EXPORTS
TRADE WITH NEUTRALS A SUSPICIOUS INCREASE NEW YORK, Feb. 16. (Received Feb. 17, at 6 p.m.) The New York Times Washington correspondent says that sharp advances in United States shipments, since the war, to five neutrals accessible to Germany, has provoked a suspicion here of “ sizeable leaks in the British blockade system.” The Commerce Department figures for the month of January, 1939 and 1940, show that Italy and the Netherlands have doubled, Norway has trebled and Switzerland has quadrupled their United States imports, mostly of products useful for war. The diversion of normal trade routes to neutral countries is a factor in these figures, but it is nevertheless an “open secret” in trade and diplomatic circles here that one price which the Allies are paying for Signor Mussolini’s neutrality is increased commerce.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24226, 19 February 1940, Page 8
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134AMERICAN EXPORTS Otago Daily Times, Issue 24226, 19 February 1940, Page 8
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