MORAL EMBARGO

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 February 1940, Page 5

MORAL EMBARGO

BEING OBSERVED BY UNITED STATES.

PETROL SHIPMENTS TO RUSSIA

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright NEW YORK, January 31.

Refuting the Washington dispatch cabled on January 19. that lhe United States had exported 1,31)0,()()() barrels of petrol to Russia since tile start of the war. (he Stockholm correspondent of the “New York Times,” Mr Axelsson. says lie has learned from an unimpeachable source that only two barrels of aviation petrol (intended for laboratory use) have been sent to Russia since the start of the war between Russia and Finland, and only 883,000 barrels of petrol, none of which were of aviation quality, have been sent to Russia since the start of the European war in September. He stresses that the American exporters are religiously observing the moral embargo urged on December 21 by the State Secretary, Mr Hull, and says that the dispatch of January 19 has strained Swedish-American relations and provoked bitter editorial attacks against, the United States.

(When Hie original report was made it was suggested that at least some of the oil bought by Russia was intended for transfer to Germany.