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...China. On the day when the trade treaty lapsed and this Damoclean policy went into effect, Secretary of State Hull was bedded with the sniffles. President Roosevelt was mum. U. S. scrap iron, oil, many another export essential to Nippon's Armies continued to move across the Pacific. Embargo-minded Senators were given to understand that it would be a good idea to hold off on bills curbing trade with Japan, let Ambassador Horinouchi and his superiors in Tokyo continue to wait, see, and-who knows?-mend their military manners...
...rights of U. S. citizens and U. S. property, shut diplomatic eyes to repeated protests, eagerly grasped incidents like the carrying home of Ambassador Saito's ashes on U. S. S. Astoria as examples of everlasting amity. The U. S. openly gave China commercial credits, declared a moral embargo on certain war materials to Japan, and, last July 26, gave notice of abrogation of the 1911 treaty, effective six months later. But Japanese diplomats could see no flaw in an ancient friendship...
...heels. Actually the abrogation meant no immediate change in U. S.-Japanese trade: it meant that either party could, if desired, throw up trade barriers of one sort or another. Last week there seemed no immediate probability of either side's doing anything drastic. The various embargo measures before Congress were in doldrums, and the State Department was leery of creating precedents which might prove disastrous if applied in Europe...
WASHINGTON -- The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will begin immediate consideration of Japanese embargo measures when it meets Wednesday, Chairman Key Pittman, D., Novada, said tonight on his return from Son. William E. Borah's funeral at Boise, Idaho...
...Army was being told by the Tokyo Government that the U. S. was doing absolutely nothing about renewing its trade treaty with Japan, which lapses next week. While this did not mean any immediate hardship, it did mean that at any moment the U. S. might declare an embargo which would stop 74% of the Army's war supplies. Last week Colonel Henry L. Stimson, who as Secretary of State (1929-33) constantly opposed Japanese ambitions, urged just such an embargo...