notes that any Allied action that cuts off, or materially reduces, Japan’s bauxite imports will have an immediate effect on her aluminum production. In turn this will lower her aircraft production within six months. In the past, Japan has been building sixteen thousand planes per year. Since Japan has no stockpile of bauxite, the analysts note that she can import this vital mineral “only by forgoing imports of other high-priority items.” The Japanese war industry is about to be strangled: American submarines are doing what the Germans nearly accomplished with Great Britain.
