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Old October 23rd 03, 11:44 AM
Keith Willshaw
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"Stuart Wilkes" wrote in message
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Stuart Wilkes wrote:



Wasn't there an embargo placed on shipments of steel between
the two countries, as well as access to oil?


Not while the Soviet-Japan border war was going. That ran between
1937 - 1939. The US did not freeze Japanese assets and embargo scrap
steel and oil until 1941.

How does this support your implications?


It has nothing to do with them, since the shipments continued
throughout the entire Soviet-Japan border war.


No state of war was ever declared, there were a series of
border clashes culminating in the battle of Khalkin Ghol
between May and Sept 1939.

Keith