tse the Jater’s patents for armaments; and here we come v fone of the most important forms of aid in the building up ofthe mighty power of Jopan—the granting of patent rights whi habled her to produce specialized armaments in domestic The western armament firms drew handsome royalties on there patent licences, No pains were spared to sce that the Japancse industry was placed on a fhofings aumbers of experts were vent over by the British and ‘American firme to supervise the erection and operation of plan fand constant touch was maintained by both sides, Aneexat. oF Disocts During the Howse of Commons debate on the private man facture and trade in arms, Sir Joba Simon declared with some heat that “torn erties seemed to think that it was quite right for private manufacturers to export arms to China but quite wrong fo export them to Japaa”. Subsequent events have shown that the erties who ansioyed Sir John Simon were quite right in ds ‘riminatng between these two countries, and Lord Simon would are lave some dificlty now in supporting the false ethics of Bis earlier atte "This chapter ilisteates one of the most glaving paradoxes of the international trade in arm: the arms-preducing countris which have suffered mort from Japanese aggression are jut thse which have contributed most towards making her a major Iniltary Power. During the yeas lading up to the entry of th United States into this war, the Royal Dutch and Standard Oil groups were mainly responsible for ol supplies wo Japan. ‘The Dutch East Indies, now completely subjugated by Japan, was that ation’s second largest supplier of both oil and rubber. ‘The largest exporter to Japan ofthe six most important war materials ‘needed forthe support of her armies vas America, who poured {nto the aps of her mlitariat a never-ending sear of ol, scrap fon, machinery, copper, aircraft and automobiles. ‘The British Empire concentrated on the supply of non-ferrous retals, rubber, leather, ores and exclusive supplies of asbestos roxvo ousToueR 103 and mia, ending Japan in 1998 more than 91% of her tiny p762% ot her nicks, 45:97% of her aluminium, 54-20% of er fend, 07-3894 of er zinc, 765% of her rubber, 649% of he leather, 68-77% ofher ores, 20% ofher asbestos and 100% of er Be Ue ttal yekr the Beitah Eenpire art Ansece eam them supplied Japan with 76-69% of her war materials and 60-196 of the foreign with which she bought these material Tn point offic, over 85 of materials exential co war came Som the four democratic groups—the U.S.A., the Dutch Empige, the Brith Empire and the French Empire, ‘The Axis groups, on the ther hand, supplied only 9-969 in tog7 and 8-549, 18 1998 Teisofnteest to notice that although the Soviet Union posteared fan abundance of‘ome of the war materials required by Japan she told nothing to her during either 1997 or 1098 ‘The stream of war supplies went on until almost the last ‘moment. Ih 1940) America placed a ban on the shipment off hhighectase gasoline and aviation lubricating oil, but fill the fxport of oil to Japan increased in that year by $10,000,000. Tn the same period the export of semi-mamufactured iron and cel rose by 10094. Tn the first three mouitla of 1oft the United States sold Japan more than 84,500,000 worth of eopper and $11,705,000 worth of gasoline and al ‘As late as two years after the ginning of the sar, the [Australian dockers at Port Kembla, New South Wales, stuck lagninst the dispatch of loads of pigsicon and steel to Japan by Broken Hill Proprietary—a Britsh-owned company. ‘he strike ‘was ruthlesly broken by the authorities, and the material was ‘hipped ax otigially intended, It was probably used, with 20 ‘itch of the other material supplied by the democracies © tear to pieces the bodies of the Atsses, and other troops from the Dominions, Colonies and fom Amerie only a few months after the sre ‘Tues Lerven Srovenp Ams ro Jerax in December, 1940, 8 more succeatfol move was made in this ‘ountry to stem the flow of this “bloody traffic" to our future fenerny, After consultations with one of the present writer, the