Evening star. [volume], October 12, 1939, Page A-9, Image 9

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Resale of Imported
Strategic Materials
Is Condemned
Munitions Board Warns
Of Urgent Need in
m Defense of U. S.
Resale to warring Europe of im
ported materials "essential to the
Industrial economy of the Nation”
and of strategic importance in the
defense of the United States was
condemned in a statement issued
late yesterday by the Army and
Navy Munitions Board.
Such materials either are not pro
4 duced in this country or are not
found in sufficient quantities “to
satisfy vital requirements,” the
board said, declaring:
“Since the outbreak of the present
war in Europe, foreign purchasers
have either obtained or are attempt
ing to obtain for shipment abroad
supplies of these strategic materials
which have been imported into this
country by private interests for use
by American industry.”
The board listed as the non
American materials of the most im
portance antimony, chromium, man
ganese ferrograde, manila fiber,
quartz crystal, quicksilver, quinine,
rubber, silk, tin and tungsten.
Program Recently Initiated.
“The emergency stock program
which has been recently initiated
by the Government,'’ the board
a added, “will be nullified if materials
which are normally in stock in the
United States not owned by the
Government are re-exported.
"Activities or ioreign buyers nave
resulted in the removal of some
10,000 tons of ruboer and an appre
ciable amount of tin from the
market since September 1. Attempts
have also been made to obtain ferro
manganese and supplies of other
strategic materials, either in a raw
or semi-finished form, now in the
United States, for export.”
The board thus assailed the prac
+ tice:
“Such sales are condemned by
the more, patriotic and responsible,
dealers and manufacturers in the
United States, who are co-operating
with the Army and Navy Munitions
Board in its effort to increase the
supply of these materials within
the country-.”
Expensive to Import.
•* The statement asserted that “^rom
the standpoint of national defense
It is perhaps imprudent to ship out
of the country those materials
which can be replaced oijly by im
ports, especially at the present
time when it is becoming more diffi
cult and more expensive to secure
even the minimum imports of many
of the materials listed.”
The board explained, however,
that the principal purpose of this
effort to acquire and conserve these
alien products “is to assure, in the
event war should interrupt the
supply, that there will be available
In the United States a sufficiency
of these materials essential to the
Industrial economy of the Nation.”
Under authority of Congress, it
- was pointed out, the Procurement
Division of the Treasury Depart
ment recently “issued proposals for
the acquisition of stocks of certain
materials classified as strategic by
the Army and Navy Munitions
Board in consultation with repre
sentatives of the State, Treasury,
Commerce and Interior Depart
ments.”
Publication of the statement was
authorized by Acting Secretary of
the Navy Edison and Assistant Sec
retary of War Johnson “to answer
M numerous queries that have been
made upon the Army and Navy
Munitions Board with reference to
exports of strategic materials.”
MacLeish Will Speak
At Room's Dedication
Archibald MacLeish, new librarian
©f Congress, will speak at the dedi
cation of the Library's colorful new
Hispanic room this afternoon. His
address, at 3:45 o’clock, will go to
South America by short-wave radio,
and will be carried over the United
States by the Columbia Broadcast
ing System.
Latin American, Spanish and
Portuguese diplomats here have
been invited to the ceremony, since
an extensive collection on the cul
ture of their nations will be housed
In the room. State Department and
4 Pan American Union officials will
also attend.
Dr. Lewis Hanke, director of the
Hispanic Foundation, will introduce
Mr. MacLeish.
Senators' Mail
On Neutrality
Drops Sharply
By the Associated Press.
* The big green truck that brings
mail to the Senators is only a
fourth full these days.
" Senate post office employes said
the truck was delivering 25 bags of
mail a day, compared with the ca
pacity load of a hundred-odd which
It carried at the start of the neu
trality fight.
Letters to the 96 Senators now ag
gregate 50,000 a day, approximately
* the normal figure. Two weeks ago
there were 200,000 a day, an all-time
high.
Several Senators predicted their
mail would increase substantially
shortly before the final neutrality
vote.
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