"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
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"Spiv" wrote in message
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So people;le would be engaged in war production, rather than food
production.


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?

More arms were needed than what we could make. Duh!