A WEATHER EMBARGO

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 11, 14 January 1933, Page 10

A WEATHER EMBARGO

American ambition to forbid the export of arms is subject to international agreement. President Hoover has said that it would be futile to stop exporting-if other arms exporting countries continued to send war material to disturbed regions; 'and the resolution of the Foreign Affairs Committee of, the Senate, aimed against "shipment of arms or munitions," seems to carry the same proviso. That is, one dissentient among the exporting countries will be tantamount to continuance of export. A peculiar feature of the cabled news is that it asserts that. American eyes, in this matter, are on Paraguay and Bolivia, not on China and Japan. The partisanship underlying the following is at least candid:— .- There is no expectation that the power given by the Senate's resolution will be used in. other parts of the world, particularly tho Orient, where, Senators believe, invoking the embargo would bo likely to prove .to China's disadvantage. King Frost is less discerning. He has "postponed the Chinese attempt to recover" a pass. At 30 below, "military operations are impossible." Machine-gun^ have to go into cold store, no matter who loses thereby. Weather's greatest asset is its unsentimentality. If it extinguishes a war or a crop, that is the end" of the matter. There is no need either of pre-conference, or joint action, or post-mortem, nor of a hundred philosophical questions that can never be answered. Above all, there is no loss of time.