Appearing on the same programme, Mr. George H. Tinkham, Republican of Massachusetts and member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, charged that there existed a secret U, S.-British pact aimed against Japan.
He alleged that Mr. Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, had entered into a secret alliance with Britain, covering the joint use of the Canton and 5 Edenbury Islands, thus threatening war against Japan. (The Canton and Edenbury Islands are tiny islands in the Pacific in the Phoenix group).
Mr. Tinkham disclosed that he had written Mr. Hull asking for the terms of the 1938 agreement between Britain and the United States for joint. Occupation and control of the two tiny islands, but the State Department had turned down his request. The State Department informed him that it could "not publish the terms of the agreement without the consent of the British Government, he alleged, Mr. Tinkham also said that the abrogation of the Japanese-American trade treaty was a step to war.
Senator Alexander Wiley, Republican of Wisconsin, however, argued against an embargo. "At the best an embargo would be of doubtful assistance to China and would arouse antagonism in Japan," he said—United Press.
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