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...White House, protesting aid to Britain-purely in the interests of peace. When A.P.M. gave up picketing as futile just before Germany attacked Russia, it did not recede from its stand one iota. But last week, after Russia was attacked, A.P.M. came forth with a vast new credo: an embargo on Japan, all-out aid to almost everyone, including Great Britain, China and-er-the Soviet Union...
Last week the Foreign Policy Association backed up the Administration's stand, declared: "Tokyo has been able to force Britain and the U.S. to sell oil by threatening to strike at the East Indies if an embargo is applied. Washington and London agree on the wisdom of propitiating the Japanese by furnishing them with sufficient oil to meet or more than meet their needs...
...controls having been clamped on, all parties at once took great pains to make it politely clear that export control did not mean embargo. Full stoppage of trade, tsk-tsk'd Mr. Sayre unctuously, was not intended. He wanted "a minimum of dislocation" of normal business. The Japanese, no fools, had anticipated plenty of "dislocation"; in April and May they had bought everything in the Philippines that wasn't nailed down, including $353,600 worth of iron ore. They knew that licensing meant slow strangulation: the application of licensing to U.S.-Japanese trade had brought exports to Japan...
...difference between Conant and Roosevelt is that Conant has a faith in the judgment of ordinary Americans, while FDR puts his trust in trick devices, trial balloons, evasive phrases, and clever propaganda. The jockeying power of the Administration has been simply terrific. The repeal of the Arms Embargo was pushed through as a measure to avoid war, aided by a "cash and carry" rider. Various other departures from our neutrality were countenanced by those who believed in aid to England short of war, as insurance and defense for this country. At this point Roosevelt advanced the plausible theory that Hitler...
...seniority, North Carolina's bumptious isolationist, "Roaring Robert" Reynolds, is entitled to become chairman of the Military Affairs Committee. Elegant Mr. Reynolds is known to the public as a legislator who fought to delay conscription, to kill the Lend-Lease Bill, and against repeal of the arms embargo...