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    "ocrText": "The estimated annual requirements of Palestine's industry in 1940 for raw ma-\nterials, if its total productive capacity were devoted to the war effort, were as follows:\ndathswa\nbris awst diod\nIron and steel\n30,000 tons\nard B.B.\nNonferrous metals\n50\n2,000 tons\non\n;adatÀ\nand TO (estal of\nChemicals\n6,000 tons\ndaibewa\nWood and cork\n20,000 tons\nFats and oils\n5,000 tons\nHides and leather\n1,000 tons\nPaper products\n9,000 tons\nCoal\n30,000 tons\nCoke\n5,000 tons\nPetroleum\n65,000 tons\n-il\nTextile raw materials\n2,500 tons\nFoodstuff raw materials\n47,000 tons\nbras\nMiscellaneous materials\n25,500 tons\nTOTAL\n248,000 tons\n5. POSSIBLE OUTSIDE SOURCES OF SUPPLY. (Countries from which Israel is receiving\nmatériel.)\na.\nThe USSR and its Satellites.\nNo reliable evidence exists of purchases of arms from the USSR, although it\nis known that Jewish Agency representatives in Prague have negotiated with the Soviet\nPurchasing Commission there. The Governments of Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia,\nas well as those of Bulgaria and Albania, have cooperated in the transfer of arms to\nthe Jewish forces by providing facilities, applying security measures, and maintaining\nthe utmost secrecy concerning movements of arms. In Czechoslovakia, the transfer\nof arms is apparently being effected by Hagana and Intra-Spet, a Czech Government\nexport-import agency. While some shipments have been made from Czechoslovakia\nby air (from Zatec and Ruzyne airfields, near Prague), most shipments appear to\nhave been made by sea from ports located mainly in Italy, Bulgaria, and Albania.\nBulgaria and Albania have no resources for making actual contributions of arms of\nany significance. There are indications of some purchases of arms from Poland, as a\nresult of negotiations between representatives of Hagana and the Polish Central Jewish\nCommittee. Shipments thus made entered Palestine under the guise of pipe and\nplumbing supplies.\nb. Western Europe.\nApparently the only Western European country in which the Jews have met\nwith success in their efforts to purchase matériel is Belgium. Sale was made by the\nOffice of Mutual Aid to the National Hebrew Government, and the matériel consisted\nof tenting and individual equipment of US manufacture rather than weapons. Al-\nthough Italy, because of Zionist pressure, has taken no effective action against the\n15"
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