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La Légation de Suisse à Washington au Département d’Etat1

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The experience of the years 1914-1918 has shown that in the case of a European war, Switzerland would become dependant, to a very large degree, upon the United States for her supply of food and raw materials. A rough estimate of the freight room Switzerland would need in such an event for transportation from American to European ports shows the following figures:

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