soc.history.war.world-war-ii

In article <47ed8ba5.2800875@news.individual.net>,
Phil McGregor wrote:
>On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:05:29 -0400, "AW" wrote:
>
>>The real question is would the amount available have replaced the US
>>supplies in significant quantity to placate the Imperial Japanese Navy and
>>the answer is probably not.
>
>Nope. The *real* real question is, even if the NEI governor had made
>the oil available, how would the Japanese have shipped it anywhere?
>
The *other* real question is how long the Japanese could have
afforded to pay for oil and other strategic supplies. Japan
didn't have a large modern economy like, say, Britain's, and
Britain was unable to pay for all needs with available foreign
exchange.

Willmott wrote in one of his books that the Japanese were going
to run out of money to spend about Spring of 1942, and I don't
think anybody was keen on Lend-Leasing them materiel for their
war in China.

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