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Blond, begoggled James Lorimer Ilsley, Canadian Finance Minister, brought in his so-called "baby budget." which the House of Commons promptly passed. No baby, the budget slapped an immediate embargo on some $50,000,000 worth of annual imports from the U. S. Samples: automobiles, oysters, tobacco, comic strips, fiction magazines, silk fabrics. Other imports, such as trucks and petroleum products, it admits in limited quantities by special permit until Canada feels she can do without them...
...letter also appealed for a complete embargo against Japan saying that Japanese supremacy in the Far East would necessitate a U. S. military and naval establishment in the Orient. As a further measure to prevent Japanese hegemony over China, "all aid to China" was recommended in the letter...
Professor Leach outlined a four-point program which we should adopt as a result. 1. Send naval units to Singapore to prevent Japanese encroachment there; 2. Notify Japan that we will resist an attack on Singapore; 3. Declare an embargo on all Japanese imports and exports; and 4. Help China in every way possible...
...could only result in disaster, and any decisive victory might require years of fighting. In spite of our weakness in the Far East, Roosevelt suggested that we might well block a Japanese infringement of our rights by a concentration of ships at Manila, and by threatening to place an embargo on Japan...
...order to stop Japan's expansion in the Far East, the 16 alumni made three specific proposals of action: (1) "We must deprive Japan of raw Materials which she must have to wage effective war.... Moreover there should be an embargo on imports from Japan...