Evening star., 1941-09-20
BY LLOYD LEHRBAS.
n Star,s Snacial News Service.

Inc star Special news SSIflNe'
Bulwarking President Roosevelt S
appeal to utilize all natural resources
against the Axis, the American re-
publics have placed approximately
95 per cent of the strategic raw
materials produced in the Western
Hemisphere under strict export con-
troll.
Collaboration between the United
States, as the arsenal of democracy,
and the other American nations is
said by officials to be insurirg an
increasing flow of the raw products
needed for conversion here into
weapons, munitions and other sup
plies for Britain, China and Soviet
Russia, as well as for strengthening
hemisphere defense.
A shortage of shipping facilities,
which delayed transportation of
some of the needed raw materials
as we'll as finished products to Latin
America, has been greatly remedied,
officials say, by the action of Ameri-
can nations in taking over long
idle German, italian and Danish
vessels in American ports.
Sends Millions South.
Agreements for United States pur-
chaseS of raw materials in Latin
American countries will eventually
total many millions of dollars and,
in part, make up for some of the
trade they have lost with Europe
as a result of the war.
The cooperating nations. in turn,
have imposed strict export control
regulations which insure that none
of their products will go to nations
whose policies are considered detri-
mental to the best interests of all
the American nations.
Diplomatic negotiations are now
in progress between the United
States and Chile, Peru and Argen-
tina, by which it is hoped virtually
all the raw materials produced in
the Americas which are needed for
defense production will be reserved
for this hemisphere.
Chile-along with Guatemala and
Ell Salvador-already imposes some
export restrictions and the new dis
cuSsions are planned to expand and
tighten up control over shipments
Of Chilean products. The United
States has made heavy purchases in
Chile, particularly Of copper and
nltrates.
Argentine Negotiations Slow,
Negotiations with Peru are un-
derstood to be making favorable
progress.
What officials describe as Difficult
ties have arisen in the Argentine
negotiations and they are admittedly
making slow progress. Lack of
agreement on Argentina's mineral
and wool exports, leaves the only
major loophole in plans for inter-
American solidarity in export con-
troll.
Satisfactory two-Way agreements
have been reached, officials report,
for United States purchases of raw
materials from Colombia (particu-
larly platinum, Bolivia (tin and
tungsten), Mexico, Brazil and Cuba.
Those nations, in turn, have Sc
verely limited exports of strategic
materials outside the American con-
tinent.
Other negotiations are in various
stages of progress with mineral and
metal producing nations outside this
hemisphere, including India, Turkey,
China, Soviet Russia, Portugal, the
Philippines and the French North
African colonies.
U. S. Leads Tightening.
To encourage the unity of action
asked by the President, the United
States is prepared to provide an
assured market for minerals and
other strategic materials which the
American nations formerly exported
to European or Asiatic nations, par
ticularly rubber, tin, copper, mer-
curry and long list of minerals.
The United States set the pace for
the other American republics by
placing approximately 95 per cent of