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Ever since the war in China started six weeks ago, Franklin Roosevelt has been embarrassed by the fact that, until war was declared, he could scarcely apply the Neutrality Act without making a bad situation worse. Last week's embargo appeared to bear the same relation to an official application of the Neutrality Act that the Sino-Japanese conflict bears to a declared...
Instanter Dave Beck declared war, ordering his teamsters to cease trucking all goods handled by the Bridges longshoremen-a virtual embargo of the entire San Francisco waterfront. Exceptions were made for such things as perishables and Government orders. Soon settled and forgotten was the original warehousemen-California Packing squabble. For pugnacious Dave Beck it had served its purpose as a labor Sarajevo. What started as a local warehouse squabble was by last week a major labor battle, involving the whole of San Francisco, threatening the whole Pacific Coast...
...jobs dwindled as the available storage space gradually filled up, and a delegation of longshoremen's wives waited on San Francisco's Mayor Rossi with pleas to end the war. When shippers started to direct cargoes to Oakland and other Bay ports, Beck simply widened his embargo. Outbound freight was not hit so hard because it moves to the docks largely by rail, not trucks...
...however, and new bills bearing the imprimatur of BANCA ESPANA rolled from the presses at Burgos and have been kept at a fictitious value of about 10? a peseta inside Spain.* This was the job of Salvador Amado, Delegate of State for the Treasury, who has imposed a strict embargo on exporting the money across the border. The $700,000,000 Spanish gold reserve fell into the hands of Valencia, so Senor Amado has had to hump himself to keep the Rightist treasury in funds. This he has done by means of "voluntary" contributions from the rich, by forced conversions...
...another international affair, the war in China. Attending to it would mean recognizing that war exists within the meaning of the Neutrality Act, and he and Secretary Hull had resolutely made up their minds not to know anything about any Sino-Japanese bloodletting, for declaring a Neutrality Act embargo would deprive defending China of needed supplies, have little effect on Japan. Rather than kick old friend John Chinaman when he was down, Franklin Roosevelt had decided to overlook the fact that he was taking an awful drubbing...