Word: blacklisting
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...face. The sparring for the goods and good will of a continent was over. A Roosevelt proclamation made it total economic war. Some 1,800 firms and individuals in business from Rio Grande to Cape Horn were publicly declared to be Axis-owned or Axis-aiding, put on a blacklist. From now on none of these firms can receive U.S. goods. All their assets and credits in the U.S. are frozen...
Throughout Latin America, the blacklist meant an uprooting of long-established commercial relations. Great German firms like Agfa, Bayer and Merck Chemicals, Siemens and A.E.G. (German General Electric), Carl Zeiss (cameras), Condor and Lufthansa air lines were on the list. So were lesser German and Italian firms, some innocent neutrals and Americans...
...cousin of Brazil's Foreign Minister Aranha, wondering why his Navebraz shipping company was listed. Brazilian legalists asked whether Standard Oil's Brazilian subsidiary would sell gas to Condor. If not, would it run afoul of Brazil's anti-trust laws? If yes, would Standard blacklist its subsidiary? In Buenos Aires, annoyed and puzzled businessmen chiefly feared a rise in prices, since German firms usually underquote...
...ease the pain the blacklist was bound to cause in Latin America, Washington was ready with some quick anesthetics. Priorities for Latin America's essential needs were already in the works (TIME, July 21). Added last week was a streamlined method of handling orders: governments below the border could get quick action from the State Department, private firms from Export Control Administrator Russell L. Maxwell. The Treasury announced a new general license, covering all dealings with Latin-American firms which had not been blacklisted. To top things off, the Commerce Department estimated that U.S. purchases this year would...
...arms program. Already passed by the House was a gigantic Army appropriation bill with a provision that not one nickel of the money should go to companies or workers who defied recommendations of the Mediation Board. And the Department of Justice was reported to be planning to blacklist radicals and advise employers to kick them...