Washington, Dec. 21.
The State Department yesterday extended the "moral embargo" on the sale of planes to nations bombing civilians to cover aeroplane plants, manufacturing rights, or technical information needed to produce high quality aviation fuel.
American oil companies have alı informed the Government that they will not provide facilities for the manufacture of aviation fuel, the State Department announced. No embargo was imposed on the sale of aviation gasoline itself, however.
The text of the State Department's announcement follows:
"The State Department, after consultation with the War and Navy Departments, has decided the national interest suggests that, for the time being, there should be no further delivery to certain countries of plans, plants, manufacturing rights, or technical information required in the gasoline. production of high quality aviation "This decision is reached with the view to conserving this country's technical information of strategic importance and as an extention of the announced policy of this Government in regard to the sale of aeroplanes, aeronautical equipment and materials essential to aeroplane manufacture 10 countries with armed forces which are engaged in unprovoked bombing and machine-gunning of' civilian populations from the air—United Press,
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