EXPORT LICENSING.
THE AMERICAN DECISION.
CONSERVING OF RESOURCES. (Received This Day, 11.20 a.m.) WASHINGTON, July 26. President Roosevelt reiterated that the extension of licensing control, virtually an embargo on the export of scrap iron, other scrap mbtal and petroleum, was "designed to conserve resources for national defence, especially of .high quality aviation gasoline. He insisted that control was not connected with British asquiescenee in the Japanese closing the Burma Road. , The British Ambassador (the Marquess of Lothian) called on the Assistant Secretary of State (Mr. Sumner Welles) and indicated his pleasure at the restrictions.
JAPANESE INQUIRIES
RECONSIDERATION URGED (Received This Day, 11.20 a.m.) TOKIO, July 26. The Foreign Office is reported to have instructed its diplomats at Washington to inquire of the United States its true intentions in regard to the embargo and to ask the United States to give the matter serious consideration in order to avoid aggravation of Japanese-American relations.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 248, 27 July 1940, Page 6
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