Word: trade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before the war began, 70% of Germany's export trade was with European countries, mostly The Netherlands, France and England. Japan, South America, Mexico and the Indies are Germany's biggest remaining export markets (outside of bartering with Russia). For example, Chile is waiting now for a big order of German railway equipment...
...neutrals know that they had better protest at the top of their lungs against this new invasion of their rights. This both countries did and in The Netherlands' case the protest conveyed as much real as dictated anguish, for one Hollander in three derives his livelihood from German trade. Minister Jonkheer Edgar Michïels van Verduyen, for the Dutch, was soon followed to the British Foreign Office by Minister Baron Emile Ernest de Cartier de Marchienne for the Belgians. Denmark protested, Sweden protested, Norway protested-but all of them less vigorously than the two Nazi-prodded neutrals...
Deepest effect of Britain's blockade of German exports-formal proclamation of which was delayed until the neutrals had sounded off-will be much like the trade-hampering effect of the U. S. cash-&-carry law, but working in reverse. Customers will certainly not take title to goods ordered from Germany until the goods are landed safely on the buyer's doorstep. And customers will be reluctant to order German goods, knowing them to be subject to delay or confiscation on their way overseas...
...strong, clean, upstanding nation; its government is democratic, it has always minded its own business, and held no designs of aggression. Finland is the land of Sibelius, the land where the Olympics were to be held; the land that paid its war debts, and carried on a brisk trade with the United States. Now it is being ruthlessly destroyed. The effect over here on the large body of Scandinavians in the Northwestern States will not be insignificant. Thus far they have meant a great bloc of isolationist sentiment in Congress, but their enthusiasm to steer clear of the European turmoil...
...action was uncalled for and unnecessary and deserves the censure of the world. She could have achieved the same result by taking a little longer and using an economic boycott, since Finnish trade is practically closed except through Russia...