In article .net,
Steven P. McNicoll wrote:

In a previous message you said: "The country could feed itself that was for
sure. The Germans wanted to sink arms more than food." If the UK imported
food to free the populace for war production, why were there arms to be sunk
on UK bound merchant ships?

FWIW, Britain produced most of its own arms, with some obvious exceptions
like tanks.



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