FOREIGN TRADE: Scandinavia Closed

On the day when Denmark awoke last week to find scuttle-helmeted Nazi infantrymen patroling its streets the U. S. awoke minus a $500,000-a-day export trade. Choking off the seaborne trade of the three Scandinavians as the U. S. S. R. had already choked the commerce of Good Customer Finland, Adolf Hitler had over night cut more than 5% from U. S. export trade, nearly 4% from her imports.

How else Blitzkrieg would affect U. S. business no man could say. Scandinavian trade is a complicated network which taps world ports from the Thames...

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