Assessment of German Productive Capacity

would shortly be available and he suggested that these might be considered by the Service Departments who might be asked to give estimates of the strengths to which Germany might, from other points of view, be expected to develop each of her armed forces. It would then be possible for the Ministry of Economic Warfare, taking into account Germany's minimum civil requirements, to say how far her available productive capacity would be adequate to maintain armed forces on the scales suggested by the Service Departments.