(By Arrangement with the "Daily Telegraph.")
Staggering Blow to Neutrals The export ban was a staggering blow to all the neutrals, The Netherlands faces the ruin of her shipping trade, almost 75 per cent. of which is outgoing German commerce from Rotterdam. To protests from the Netherlands, Japan and the Scandinavian countries, England has, however, turned a sympathetic ear and the ban has not yet been strictly enforced. It seems likely that England will use it to squeeze Germany hard but not so hard as to make the neutrals desperate. With the only potentially dan-with Germany diminish to a trickle. Most other neutrals have no choice.
Between Washington and London, embarrassing situations have arisen have been adroitly hand. led by Ambassador Kennedy, President Roosevelt and the State Department. Little has been allowed to leak out for fear of upsetting Anglo-American relations. And the British Foreign Office, knowing the touchiness of the American public, has tried to instill čaution into the heart of the Ministry of Economic Warfare. But 62 American ships were detained by the Allies up to November 25. Hi them were held as long as and released only after the State early November, the ope:
American Neutrality these cases to a U. S. trate now passes through the control ports at Gibraltar, Haifa anà Aden.
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soldiers! (4) 33 Prolonged arrangement of dawn tour (two words—5, 3)
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