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President General Lázaro Cárdenas made some nice gestures toward continental defense last week. He slapped an embargo on shipments of Mexican mercury to Japan. A Japanese bid for 18,000 tons of scrap iron was rejected, a cargo of war materials ticketed for Tokyo frozen. A Government spokesman announced that Cardenas would declare unconstitutional a contract signed fortnight ago, granting Japan oil concessions in the State of Veracruz. This, said the Mexican Good Neighbor, was to "demonstrate Mexico's adherence to the hemisphere policy of solidarity." Few days later President General Cárdenas changed...
...Mexican Isthmus bypassing the Canal. The embargo involved 700 flasks of mercury (for making explosives), 14 sacks of molybdenum (for making steel alloys), 2,000 tons of fluor spar (for making aluminum), such oddments as 1,700 tons of flour, 5,000 drums of gasoline and oil. But the scrap and certain petroleum products which were "practically Government monopolies" were held...
...early in the year, but was persuaded to don cleats again, has cinched one berth, and Doug DeCoster has the present option on the other one, although Pets Dorsey, and George Blanchard, whose shoulder injury is still keeping him out of action, can't be counted out of the scrap...
...jitters among importers last week served one useful purpose: to make the U. S. more conscious of stockpiles, largely neglected until this year. Meanwhile, there was a possibility that, via the Philippines, Japan might circumvent the U. S. embargo on scrap. The U. S. exerts no direct control over Philippine trade, has not included the islands in its embargo. Last year the Philippines produced over 1,000,000 tons of iron ore, sent practically all of it to Japan...
...Prompt reprisal for Japan's invasion of Indo-China came when the U. S.: 1. Embargoed scrap iron and steel exports to Japan. 2. Threatened war if Japan moved further in Indo-China. 3. Sent the whole U. S. Navy to the Pacific. 4. Suddenly cut off all U. S. exports to Japan. 5. Invited China to a war conference...