Word: embargoed
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...choice should be to fight Japan, the first and most obvious step must be to throttle the flow of supplies without which Japan would long since have had to cry uncle. The second alternative, a deal, could never be negotiated without the thing which the embargo gave the U. S. for the first time-a bargaining advantage as visible as a point-blank muzzle. Finally, if the U. S. should choose that old Russian game, keeping the potential enemy fighting someone else, the embargo was equally useful. Closure of the Indo-China and Burma supply routes...
...hours when it came. It came not from his own ambitious mind, not from the Emperor or Prince Konoye or the Army-but from a fountain pen in a hand which wrote the words Franklin D. Roosevelt. The signature was set under an executive order which amounted to an embargo on oil and scrap iron. Japan had been getting an average of 70% and 90% respectively of her supply of these vital war materials from...
...morals were brushed away, alternative U. S. programs for the Far East, he realized, fell into three general heads: 1) crush Japan; 2) make a deal with Japan; 3) prolong the conflict as long as possible. What really distressed Yosuke Matsuoka was that last week's quasi-embargo could be used, paradoxically, to further any one of the three programs, if & when the U. S. State Department ever should make up its mind to pick...
Conspicuously absent from the list was scrap iron, important war material, of which the U. S. has plenty for its present needs. Chief sufferer from a scrap embargo would be Japan, who gets around 60% of her supply from the U. S. As it was, Japan had plenty to holler about because, with Russia, she has been the main foreign buyer of U. S. machine tools...
...Government, the law, though belated, was an effective weapon. Because it was not an embargo, merely a licensing arrangement, it gave the U. S. power to bring pressure on any one foreign government by refusing to give it needed war materials. Moreover, it gave the State Department an accurate check on what vital materials were being shipped to whom on what terms. U. S. moral embargoes now have a set of teeth...