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We must strive to get to a point where being

cut off from oversee -supplies for, say, six months, or even a year, would merely mean shortage, and not the horrors of -actual starvation. Till we have reached that point, we shall, even if we overcome the immediate submarine peril, be always at the mercy of some new invention, whether by ,sea or air, for the rapid destruction of the mercantile marine. So much for the " State of Siege " argument which is implicit in the first Resolution.