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...Peking Banker Nan Han-chen, the chief Chinese delegate, was equally specific about Chinese wants. Said one Briton: "These people [the Chinese] didn't come here to shoot off hot air, but to do business." Down in the fine print was the joker: the West must end its embargo against the Soviet bloc, and especially against Red China...
...economic conference showed that the Russians and the Chinese may be feeling the pinch of the West's embargo. But it was also designed to drive a wedge between the U.S. and the free nations of Europe, who badly need to build up their export markets.*Stalin himself showed his best smiling face to the West (see BUSINESS). At week's end he had a long chat with India's departing Ambassador, Sir Sarvepalli Radharkrishnan, and convinced him that everybody should get together peacefully around a table...
South Africa's Jim Crow laws discriminate against the country's 300,000 East Indians as well as its 8,000,000 Negroes. India has found a simple way to retaliate. It simply clamped an embargo on all exports to South Africa, including jute bags, in which India has a near world monopoly. South Africa uses 15,000 tons of bags every year for packaging its crops. Negroes and poor whites use them as beds, blankets, carpets and doormats. Now old bags are being patched like tire tubes. A farmer who clothed his Negro laborers in jute, with...
Canada's $2 billion livestock industry faced a major crisis: an outbreak of the dread foot-and-mouth disease, first in Canadian history, was discovered on the cattle ranges of Saskatchewan. An hour after the disease was reported, the U.S. clamped an embargo on Canadian meats and livestock, shutting off Canada's $100 million-a-year trade south of the border. Eastern Canadian provinces banned livestock shipments from the prairies. Business slumped at Western packing houses, and wholesale beef prices were driven down sharply...
Among Stassen's testimony was the fact that Senator Vandenberg informed him of Jessup's desire for an arms embargo of Nationalist China, an idea which President Truman later Vetoed...