Person

Cordell Hull

U.S. Secretary of State, 1933–1944.

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U.S. embargoes on Japan, 1940–1941 28 Jun 1940 said the U.S. had been “progressively bringing economic pressure to bear on Japan” Primary record 1
U.S. embargoes on Japan, 1940–1941 8 Oct 1940 told Japan’s ambassador the scrap iron and steel embargo applied to all nations but Britain and the Western Hemisphere Primary record 2

Standard Oil and the war in Europe, 1939–1941 according to a Standard memorandum, said he could only express a hope about gasoline for Axis air lines in Brazil Primary record 3
U.S. embargoes on Japan, 1940–1941 Secretary of State Primary record 2

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Memorandum by the Secretary of State Regarding a Conversation With the British Ambassador and the Australian Minister, June 28, 1940, U.S. Department of State, Peace and War: United States Foreign Policy 1931-1941 (1943), online edition, 28 Jun 1940. Primary record
this country has been progressively bringing economic pressure to bear on Japan since last summer, now a year
Memorandum by the Secretary of State Regarding a Conversation With the Japanese Ambassador (Horinouchi), October 8, 1940, U.S. Department of State, Peace and War: United States Foreign Policy 1931-1941 (1943), online edition, 8 Oct 1940. Primary record
the embargo, as the Ambassador knows, applies to all nations except Great Britain and the Western Hemisphere.
it was only at the height of our national defense preparations that we were imposing a few embargoes on important commodities.
Memorandum by the Secretary of State Regarding a Conversation With the Japanese Ambassador (Horinouchi)
Investigation of the National Defense Program: Hearings before a Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program, United States Senate, Part 11 (Rubber), March-April 1942, U.S. Senate (scan on the Internet Archive), 1942. Primary record
Mr. Hull said he could only express the hope that it would not be necessary for such shipments to originate from any other place in the Western Hemisphere.

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