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Worst of all, if France gave up her Navy in return for a decent peace, Axis sea power would exceed Britain...
...battles, now on this front, now on that, fighting on three fronts at once, battles fought by two or three divisions against an equal or sometimes larger number of the enemy, and fought very fiercely on old ground so many of us knew so well, our losses in men exceed 30,000 in killed, wounded and missing. I take this occasion for expressing the sympathy of the House with those who have suffered bereavement or are still anxious...
...long as warfare in the air does not exceed its present intensity, the Germans do not seem destined to suffer from any dangerous shortage of airplane fuel...
...events in Rumania. There the Government of King Carol, bowing before Allied pressure which took the form of shutting off supplies of cotton, wool, jute, aluminum and iron from Rumanian factories, not only assured the British Government that Rumania's exports of oil to Germany would not exceed 130,000 tons per month, but embargoed all aviation fuel and lubricants from leaving the country. With Dr. Karl Clodius, economic field marshal for Adolf Hitler, due back in Bucharest this week for a final showdown on Rumanian oil, this step was a daring one indeed. And Rumania backed...
...number of Frenchmen killed in battle should in the near future exceed the number of Germans killed by 37,500 a month (450,000 a year), the military consequences will be serious. From the military standpoint it is equally serious that France's man power has actually fallen behind German man power at the rate of 450,000 men a year. Last year, for example, 750,000 little Germans were born as against only 300,000 little Frenchmen...