ATTITUDE OF U.S.A.
AMERICAN OIL FOR ITALY. “I believe,” said sir Archibald Sinclair, Leader of the Liberal Party in the House of Commons, “that the forces in the United States of America working for an embargo on oil exports to Italy would be strong enough to influence American policy, if the League is strong enough to act alone. To seek American help ’ beforehand would be useless, but I do not believe that the United States of America would allow exports of oil to Italy 'to continue on a vast scale from the United States if it were clearly seen that the direct effect of those exports was tc help the conduct of the war by Italy, and largely to neutralise the efforts and sacrifices of the members of the League. It is naturally impossible to say how far the pressure of public opinion in the United States of America, would be effective, but there can be little dout that it would succeed in checking to some extent the export of oil, especially as Mr Rockefeller, the chief of the oil magnates in the United States of America, is a strong supporter of the League.”
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 52, Issue 3756, 15 May 1936, Page 3
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