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...shipping shortage the whole story. U.S. exporters revealed an invisible anti-Argentine embargo exercised indirectly through denial of export licenses. Isolation began to feel pretty lonely...
Early in World War I a period arrived when industry began to produce war goods-and the railroads to deliver it-faster than there were ships to take it away. At that point the railroads had to embargo further shipments to ports which were hopelessly congested with goods which there were not even enough warehouses to hold...
Last week, less than four months after the U.S. entered World War II, the railroads had again to embargo most export freight moving to seaboard. The congestion in the ports had reached a point where in some places it was necessary to unload goods into open fields in order to empty freight cars...
Japan realizes all this, and she realizes that every month our navy is becoming stronger, as is Singapore. Our recent refusal to lift the embargo means that Japan's aftempts to bluff us into deserting China have failed. The longer Japan waits, the stronger will China become and the more will Japanese surpluses of important raw materials shrink--resources like iron, petroleum, copper, and alumninum, for which she depended almost entirely on America...
...newspapers and magazines, which reach a Hearst-sized audience of over 8,000,000, bespeak the Church's mind more directly and potently than any other religious press. Since the Spanish Civil War, when it was credited with putting across the Church's campaign to keep the embargo against arms to the Republic, the Catholic press in general has been strongly isolationist...