Washington, Mar. 28.
No American áémarche to Britain should be expected against stoppage of the two Soviet ships, Selenga and Mayakovsky, at Hongkong when they were found carrying contraband American copper, semi-official American quarters told Havas today.
Britain's action, they said, even falls in line with unofficial American policy as evidenced by the moral embargo placed by the State Department on exports of war materials 10 countries which bomb civilian pogulations, Copper, since imposition of this moral embargo, is the only war material exported by the United States to Russia. No purpose would be served by stopping copper exports, industrial quarters pointed out, for this mineral is available to Russia in great quantities elsewhere.
Valuable aluminium and molybdonum, essentia in the aviation industry, is no longer shipped to the U.S.S.R., however, These metals are produced in quantity and are available to foreign buyers in large lots only in the United States.
These facts, the semi-official political quarters concluded, all tend 10 confirm their belief that the U.S, Government will make no diplomatic representations to Britain.—Havas.
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