Word: embargoed
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...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 U. S. operations. Furthermore, if the U. S. at this juncture tried to press home the recent halfhearted embargo on scrap iron, steel and oil, doing so would probably drive Japan to desperate measures in the Indies, where she could get an alternate supply of oil and some iron...
...October 18 the CRIMSON fired the first shot in the battle when it attacked President Conant (who had urged lifting the arms embargo), Bishop Manning of New York, and President Seymour of Yale, accusing them of "earning an unenviable place in the road gang that is trying to build for the United States a super-highway to Armageddon...
...active part in converting opinion into action. When the Congressional debate on repeal of the Neutrality Act was at its height, his old friend Clark Eichelberger, director of The League of Nations Association, called him from Manhattan, asked him to head a committee to advocate repeal of the embargo. Editor White steadfastly refused, but Eichelberger induced other friends to press him, and White finally made several speeches. In Emporia when repeal was certain, he received a two-word telegram from Franklin Roosevelt: "Thanks, Bill...
...plumped for more and freer trade, steadily endorsed the reciprocal trade agreement program of Cordell Hull. Last week it watched the Secretary of State take one more backward step in his losing battle for commercial freedom: to the long list of U. S. foreign-trade restrictions was added an embargo on aviation gasoline to countries outside the Western Hemisphere. Free traders confronted in San Francisco the question that lurks at every U. S. crossroad: to preserve liberty for the future, how much liberty is it necessary to put on the shelf...
Japan reacted to the embargo violently, but alert Foreign Minister Matsuoka was a jump ahead of his own countrymen. He instructed Ambassador to the U. S. Kensuke Horinouchi to call on Sumner Welles and lodge a protest. He instructed Spokesman Suma to use strong words. That master of anticlimax told reporters: "Our reaction will be very great." But the most serious thing Yosuke Matsuoka did was to let word get about that Japan might have to retaliate by cutting off U. S. supplies of rubber and tin from the East Indies...