FOOD AS CONTRABAND
DEFENCE OF BRITISH POLICY WEAKNESS WOULD PROLONG WAR. FATS AND OILS USED FOR MUNITIONS. Uy Te'cgraoh—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 12.40 p.m.) LONDON. November 1. The Minister for Economic Warfare, broadcasting, gave what is tantamount to a reply to Russia’s protest against the inclusion of food in the British conditional contraband list. He said: “The blockade is one of our most powerful weapons, particularly today, when whole nations and not only armies, are mobilised for war. In our considered opinion the treatment of food as conditional contraband is an essential element in economic warfare, which would be seriously weakened] without it.”
To except certain goods, he added, would merely prolong the war. Of the total seizures thus far, about fourteen per cent could normally be classified as foodstuffs, of which nine per cent contains fats and oils which could be used, by Germany for munitions. The remainder intercepted—namely, 86 per cent —could be used for war purposes. Prolonging the war unnecessarily was incomparably crueller than exercising economic pressure.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 November 1939, Page 6
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171FOOD AS CONTRABAND Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 November 1939, Page 6
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