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...From British Malaya and The Netherlands East Indies the U. S. gets 85.9% of its crude rubber (plus 4.5% from French Indo-China), 78.4% of its tin...
must have rubber and tin, has nowhere else to go for the amount it needs, has failed to lay in stockpiles. If Japan takes The Indies, the supply might still be open to the U. S. on Japan's terms. Basis for this hope is: 1) Japan's desperate need of foreign exchange, which has always come largely from trade with the U. S.; 2) Japan's mortal fear of a war with...
...which the U. S. might have to fight, willy-nilly, if its rubber-&-tin lifeline were actually cut. Nobody would dislike that war more than the Japanese officers under genial Vice Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto; they have a great liking and respect for the U. S. Navy...
Suddenly an explosion shook the vessel, one Argentine lay dead and five wounded as a result of an improvised time bomb concealed in a beef tin. An hour later pro-Nazi, Hitler-decorated Secretary of the Navy Leon Lorenzo Scasso expediently glossed over the affair: "A fire, source unknown." Threatened by a strong tendency toward native Fascism from within, alarmed by President Vargas' utterances as head of its most important rival for South American leadership, faced by a 30% decrease of European markets since the outbreak of the war (although trade with Britain is way up), Argentina too turned...
...Tin and rubber...