"Keith Willshaw" wrote in message
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"Spiv" wrote in message
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the merchant ships after all.

The country could feed itself that was for sure.

So why do you think Britain imported vast amounts
of grain from the USA and Canada and beef from Argentina

So people;le would be engaged in war production, rather than food
production.

The Germans wanted to sink
arms more than food.

Trouble is most of the ships sunk werent carrying arms.

Because that was imported the most, and raw materials.