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...fullest use, in the common interest, of both Empires' raw materials, production means, tonnage. Thus, if the French Army needs 6-inch shells worse than the British need anti-aircraft shells, British factories will hustle the former instead of the latter. Or if Britain needs bottoms for Canadian wheat worse than France needs them for Algerian mutton, to Canada they shall...
...until December 1917 was the Allied Maritime Transport Council set up, and it did not start functioning until March 1918. Subordinate to it were a score of committees on food, munitions, raw materials. But all these bodies were purely advisory, had no authority to enforce their decisions...
...taking shape, the Anglo-French peace pattern envisions that hereafter uneconomic duplication of production would cease, industrial specialization by nations would be encouraged, pertinent raw materials would be made available to all, and exploitation of new territories would be mainly carried out by economic organizations like the Suez Canal Co., in which investors of many States participate, instead of by smash-and-grab political tactics like the Italian war to bring "civilization" to Ethiopia...
More remarkable was The Netherlands growth in manufactures. Lacking most of her food, forced to import almost all her industrial raw materials, the country nevertheless spurred its production of tiles and potteries, radio and electrical appliances, Diesel engines, chemicals. Amsterdam (and Antwerp in Belgium), are the largest diamond-cutting centres of the world, an operation carried on in plants similar to auto factories. Rotterdam developed into the continent's third biggest port for transshipment of goods and houses sizable shipbuilding yards...
...Only the blind cannot see what charlatans deny-that the present war between the Anglo-French and Germany is waged for colonies and raw materials, domination of sea routes and exploitation of alien peoples. Germany presents her claims for division of the colonial loot of the first imperialist war, now in the hands of the British and French bourgeoisie, who do not intend to loosen their grip on their vast possessions...