Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-09-11
Reich Believed Sure
ItCan Supply Needs
From } Neutral Points
Goerine's Talk Seen as
Counting on Southeast
Europe, Italy and Russio
By BLAIR BOLLES.

Washington is inclined to in
terpret Marshal Goerings cryptic
statement that from a trade point
of view Germany "can get along
without America" as rejecting his
confidence that the Third Reich can
obtain the goods she needs from
three neutral sources:
Southeastern Europe, which IN the
last few years has come under the
economic domination of Germany.
italy, which as neutral nation
can function as channel for i'm
ports to Germany from African,
Asian and perhaps even American
countries.
Russia, which in 1888 sold Ger
many less goods in value than any
other European country except the
very small nations of Esthonia,
Latvia, Lithuania, Mcneil tnoW part
of the Third Reich, Danzig and
Portugal.
Since it is the neutrality OF these
countries which makes them OF eco
nomic value TO militarized Germany
German diplomacy for the present
probably will be aimed at keeping
them neutral. All of them were
involved in the last war in mill
tary manner.
Italy's Place Not Clear.
The place of Italy in the German
war scheme has yet to be made
N6oo,1u,l,i1o tho italian anN
German frontiers convenient con-
tiguity north of the Adriatic makes
it possible for supplies from abroad
to be carried to Italy in italian
ships and then trans-shipped to the
Germans.
An Italy out of war, but SYM
pathetic to Germany, is Hltlers
most strategic line to the outer
world.
Despite Marshal Goering's bland
dismissal of America, the figures
prepared by the Reich government
on the countrys 1888 international
commerce show that about % per
cent of all Germany's imported goods
came from North and South Amer
lea.
Germanys total imports were
valued at 6,051 500 900 Reichsmarks,
divided thus: Europe. 3,403 485 900:
the Americas, 1491. 774O 900; Asia,
656.3l2.OOO; Africa, 400 ,624,000.
The United States was the largest
single German supplier in the
Americas (and in the world. SELL
Ing Germany goods worth asa o4l,-
600 Reichsmarks. Argentina ex-
ported goods worth 240034,000
Reichsmarks, Brazil 2l9,6l2,00
Reichsmarks. Canada, the one
Western Hemisphere country which
has gone to war with Germany, sold
goods worth 76,489,000 to the Reich
last year.
Blockade to Shut Off L. S.
The North Sea blockade and the
naval watch which Britain is keep
ing on this side of the Atlantic
from New England to south of the
La Plata River makes 1t unlikely
that much American commerce will
90 to Germany, Notwithstanding
whatever steps the Italians take in
the trade line.
So Germany will have to reconcile
herself to getting along without
America from trade point of view.
Marshal Goering's remarks consti-
tute good-by kiss for South
American commercial possibilities,
which Germany has been vigorously
coyoIooiy,p In har Cu,p interest dur
ing the past six years.
Naturally, Germany loses her trade
also with all the countries which
have gone to war against her. Those
nations in 1888 supplied Germany
with goods valued at these amounts:
= France. 100000 reichsmarks:
Great Britain, 3os,82S 900; Poland,
1876 932 900; Australia. 63,476,000;
New Zealand, 1894 900; India, ISL
1859 900.
Foodstuffs and industrial supplies
both are included in Germany's lost
sources of goods. The loss of these
nations as points of purchase also
cuts them off as buyers from Ger
many. This puts a further crlmp
in the German problem Of exchange,
which has been so scarce that its
lack led to the development of the
German barter system of interna-
tional commerce. Foreign exchange
control and the barter system were
the chief features of Germanys new
plan for German economic develop
mert.