Anglo-American successes in North Africa have knocked out one of the props supporting the Nazi planners' patchwork continental economic structure, and are giving the United Nations substantial economic as well as military advantages. With the loss of Morocco and Algeria, Germany's Europe will forfeit an annual: > 410,000 tons of high-grade iron ore. This is a particularly heavy blow in view of R.A.F. bombing of the barge route via Rotterdam across the Ruhr and the growing reluctance of Swedish sailors to carry ore to Germany from Sweden.
> Considerable tonnages...
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