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Japanese statesmen arose in the Tokyo Diet last week to insist that nothing would change that course. If the U. S. implemented the treatyless situation with an embargo, Japan would not sit there and take it. She would abrogate the Nine-Power Treaty (already a dead letter); or stop being the U. S.'s third best customer; or throw U. S. citizens out of China; or fight...
...Washington there were three schools of thought on the Far Eastern situation: 1) Messrs. Pittman, Schwellenbach, Izac, Coffee, Fish, et al.-proponents of an embargo against Japan; 2) a growing group, underwritten by Secretary Morgenthau and the Export-Import Bank, which favored the roundabout maneuver of giving China a $20,000,000 credit (China had asked for $75,000,000); and 3) a sudden cloud of alarmists, frightened mainly by Columnist Walter Lippmann, who thought the risk of war was growing by the minute, but that the U. S. should hopefully do nothing...
...strict isolationist, Senator Vandenberg helped lead the Senate opposition last October to repeal of the arms embargo...
...Vandenberg resolution, Lippmann pointed out: 1) imposed a serious threat (of embargo) on Japan; 2) proposed collective action with Great Britain, France, Italy, China, The Netherlands, Belgium and Portugal against Japan in the Pacific, "at the very moment when Senator Vandenberg was telling the people here that it made no vital difference to them if the Allies were defeated in Europe"; 3) put the U. S. in the position of recklessly challenging a great power...
Said he: a Democratic President and his State Department were never controlled by his Republican initiative; his reso lution was a "relatively pacific alternative" to the urging of Administration Senators* that a one-sided embargo be clamped on Japan...