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...about U. S. ethics. Longshoremen loading Japanese ships had reported that below-decks cargo space was filled with U. S. copper, steel ingots and brass scrap. He told of "millions of brass slugs from slot machines" being transshipped from the U. S. For the so-called U. S. embargo on war materials for Japan is even leakier than the Canadian. Only U. S. bans are on iron and steel scrap, allowing other scrap metals to go through unchecked, and on aviation gasoline, which simply forces Japan to crack unrestricted low-test fuels in its own plants. Other exports are subject...
...week later, on October 4, he endorsed the repeal of the arms embargo in a public letter to Landon. He flatly stated that his beliefs were not those of war-mongers, and added. "The question is, is it to the long-run advantage of the United States to sell these arms or not. The question is not shall we declare...
...Moved to improve U. S. -Soviet relations (already secretly healthy) by removing the "moral embargo" against shipments of planes and plane equipment to Russia. Physical effect: none; as Britain has first and full call on all planes. Diplomatic effect: plenty; as a continuation of mutual efforts to remove points of irritation between the two nations, and as a small move in the vast power-politics courtship of Russia by both Axes...
...first time since the present game of international power politics began in 1931 (when Japan seized Manchuria) the London-Washington Axis dealt the cards last week. With growing concern the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Axis watched them fall. The removal of the moral embargo against Russia (see p. 11) may have been only a nine-spot, but the missions of such men as Harry Hopkins, Wild Bill Donovan (see p. 21) and Wendell Willkie (see p. 16) might turn up jacks or better. The unprecedented welcome President Roosevelt gave Lord Halifax (see p. 11) was an ace with which the Lend...
...stands for keeping out of war "now" but supplying England and China with all material aid and placing an embargo on Japan. Its domestic platform recognizes that the United States "must maintain and extend economic and political democracy at home" and stresses the promotion of a powerful national and hemisphere defense...