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...Nanking regime-made known that the U. S. had arranged to make $100,000,000 available to China. Half of this would come from the Treasury's stabilization fund to support Chinese currency ; half would be put up by the Export-Import Bank, against Chinese shipments of wolframite (tungsten ore), antimony, tin, for the U. S. strategic materials stockpile...
...French Indo-China Japan was reported to have served up a fresh set of demands, including control of Saïgon, further bases in the Gulf of Tongkin and along the South China Sea coast, Indo-China's entire exportable surplus of rubber, tin, rice, lead, zinc and tungsten. These would give Japan a new source of supplies with which to resist a blockade, would put her in a position to harass the British at Singapore and the U. S. at Manila...
...suspended while the Government investigated reports that shipments of the metals had been smuggled in from the U. S. When the reports proved false, export was resumed. Although the President failed to mention it, the truth is that large quantities of such war materials as mercury, molybdenum, antimony and tungsten are in the hands of private traders in Mexico, who would be hard hit by an embargo. Oil and scrap iron, practically Government monopolies, will stay on the restricted list, as a gesture of friendship...
President Cárdenas had several reasons for changing his mind. In the folds of Mexico's hills lie great deposits of antimony, manganese, mercury, tungsten, fluor spar, molybdenum. But big producers have never worked them, have concentrated on gold, silver, zinc, copper. The other metals have been left to the Indians, who grub them out of the ground, trot down to the market centres with a pat of tungsten, a tin of mercury whenever they need money for tortillas or pulque. The sales to Japan helped prime small native industry...
...lead, zinc, and magnesium. That was all. Two-thirds of her iron ore and 85% of her copper had to be imported. To feed her highly-developed smelters at Leipzig, Breslau, etc., she had little or no bauxite (aluminum ore), antimony, tin or the critical ferro-alloy metals: molybdenum, tungsten, chrome, nickel. The map shows how conquest enlarged her resources. Fine lines show her post-Versailles boundaries, the heavy line her holdings at the end of year I of World...