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На мой взгляд, превосходная статья Романенко. Я совершенно не разделяю предрассудка, будто украинских политиков нельзя критиковать, «патамушта война» и т. п. Как раз наоборот: их не только можно, но и нужно критиковать, если они совершают какие-то поступки или допускают высказывания, подрывающие уверенность людей доброй воли в том, что Украина ( Read more... )
On July 2, 1940, Roosevelt signed the Export Control Act, authorizing the President to license or prohibit the export of essential defense materials.” Under this authority, “[o]n July 31, exports of aviation motor fuels and lubricants and No. 1 heavy melting iron and steel scrap were restricted.” Next, in a move aimed at Japan, Roosevelt slapped an embargo, effective October 16, “on all exports of scrap iron and steel to destinations other than Britain and the nations of the Western Hemisphere.” Finally, on July 26, 1941, Roosevelt “froze Japanese assets in the United States, thus bringing commercial relations between the nations to an effective end. One week later Roosevelt embargoed the export of such grades of oil as still were in commercial flow to Japan.”
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the Americans knew, among many other things, what Foreign Minister Teijiro Toyoda had communicated to Ambassador Kichisaburo Nomura on July 31: “Commercial and economic relations between Japan and third countries, led by England and the United States, are gradually becoming so horribly strained that we cannot endure it much longer. Consequently, our Empire, to save its very life, must take measures to secure the raw materials of the South Seas.”
это вполне проверяемые и обсосанные со всех сторон факты. Но коллега почему-то считает, что все ето придумал Зорин.
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