Observers noted with interest that the order was issued less than a month after the entry of Colonel Henry Stimson, new Secretary of War, into President Roosevelt's coalition Cabinet, Colonel Stimson, it was recalled, was one of the organizers of the American Committee for Non-Participation in Japanese Aggression which favoured an embargo against Japan.
Informed quarters indicated Inst night, however, that the order amounted to more than retaliation against Japanese aggression. Military quarters pointed out that the demands America's gigantic rearmament programme required the control over exports of strategic materials. such oil and serap iron "Navicerts" Limited "The British have long controlled shipments of elf and other goods into Spain by the issuance of "Navicerts." But recently they have increasingly Himited the issuance of these certify cats, with the result that American vessels have been carrying large entities of oil to Spain on their own risk without "Navicerts."
To avoid the likelihood of Amer-
Jean. ships being taken into contra band control stations—whieh would be contrary to United States neutrality, under which American ships are forbidden to enter the ports of bel gerent nations—the United States has Apparently undertaken to prevent America tankers from sailing to Spain. shipments to Spain are_ stilt possible, however, in Spanish tankers, Which, it was understood, have been operating between the United States and Spain to some extent—united Press
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