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...Secretary of State Cordell Hull's warning to Japan to preserve the status quo in French Indo-China and the U. S. embargo on export of oil and scrap iron to Japan. Behind these moves is U. S. opposition to Japanese expansion southward, where lie vital rubber and tin...
...prepare for, an adventure toward the equator. If the Japanese were to accomplish their much-vaunted New Order in this area, U. S. economy might be severely dislocated. Materials for a range of products all the way from tires to electric-light filaments, from tea to teak, from tin for canning to quinine for malaria, would become drastically scarce in the U. S. until substitutes could be produced in sufficient quantities. What the U. S. can do about it is limited by the fact that the East Indies lie some 2,000 miles outside the arc of effective...
...days later an anonymous "Committee for the Recognition of Classroom Generals" sent tin toys to six professors, with cliations such as the following: "To Samuel H. Cross, an anti-aircraft gun to carry out his plan to defend the Women's Clubs of America from a fate worse than death...
...Tin, a strategic material to the U. S., is life and death to Bolivia, constitutes 70% of her exports. Yet the Bolivian mines, thanks to depression and years of mining by their absentee landlord, are run down. Controlling more than half the production, Patino has also managed to restrict the rest. Not for ten years has Bolivia produced the full quota set for her by the British-controlled cartel. Last year Bolivia mined 27,000 tons of ore. To reach an estimated potential of 50,000 tons, the Bolivian mines need back maintenance, new machinery, more labor...
Since the murder last year of Bolivia's dictator Colonel German Busch, who tried to nationalize tin exports, Bolivia's freelance politicos have followed the Patino formula of playing off the U. S. against Germany. They have made it a three-cushion game by also intriguing with the British, who, to preserve their profitable smelting monopoly, would rather not see Bolivian ore go direct to the U. S. But while Patino was in Spain, his old enemy and the No. 2 Bolivian tin miner, Mauricio Hochschild, took sides. Hochschild went to the U. S. last winter, contracted with...