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...Board of Trade Sir Hartley Shawcross declared that China had already bought so much rubber this year "that her civilian needs can be regarded as satisfied for the current year." ¶Supported the U.S. proposal, adopted this week by the U.N. Additional Measures Committee, for a general embargo on shipments of arms and war-essential materials to Red China...
Only Remedy? In fact, the embargo on rubber and other strategic materials will be only partly effective; Britain, the Commonwealth nations and many other nations except the U.S. will continue to sell China "non-strategic" goods which will help China's economy and therefore its war machine. The only possible remedy, which the U.S. is not yet willing to resort to: a U.S. naval blockade of the Chinese coast...
...China would lose little by the proposed embargo, since most U.N. member nations already bar the shipment of arms. But, said Gross: "We think this program will help impress Communist China and its supporters of the unity of purpose of the members of the U.N. . . . It might induce the Chinese Communists to negotiate...
Caught unprepared, Shinwell sputtered that Blackburn was "inaccurate ... for several months now we have placed an embargo on the export of strategic raw materials to China." But Blackburn was not wrong. He harried Shinwell with data from the government's own Board of Trade. Example: British Malaya had sold 120,000 tons of rubber to Communist China and 40,400 tons to Russia in the first nine months of the Korean war. Tory M.P.s joined the clamor by asking if the U.S. was pressing Britain for a "tightening-up" of the trade with the enemy...
...Clement Attlee said: "There has been a prohibition of all major strategic materials." British shipments to Red China, he insisted, had not included "warships, aircraft or anything of that sort . . ." They did include "bicycles, perambulators ... wire mattresses, nails, tacks, rivets, manhole covers . . ." But he admitted there was no absolute embargo on rubber exports, only a restriction which held shipments to 1948-49 level. And that restriction went into force only 13 days before Chinese troops poured into battle against the gallant Gloucesters...