Show Profits S Sanctions Embargoes AUSTRIA A and Hungary refusing to be bound by the s sanctions to be invoked by the league against Italy it is is' easy with Germany withdrawn withdrawn withdrawn with with- drawn as a member to map routes by which Italy may supply itself with all needed raw mat materials ma ma- t rials rial's and finished products not only to carry carryon on its war Var but also to take care cue of the wants anthof ants anth of the civil population Italy is drawing heavily r on Hungary for foodstuffs foodstuffs' and its government d declines clines to sacrifice brisk and amI profitable a ex export cx- cx port trade simply to uphold the ide ideal l of co col collective collective col- col action for security Actuated by the same mot motives ves and looking to the future when Italian friendship may be a precious us Aus Austria tria dissents from the program of lot economic pena penalties penalties pen pen- a ties against her southern neighbor S This may serve to explain in part the de deCision decision decision de- de of the Export Managers' Managers club of New York t to accept orders from both belligerent nations ns for ordinary commodities those usually considered consid consid- en ered erd d contraband and the explicitly prohibited it items ms in the presidents president's list of war materials Doubtless they do not expect large orders from Ethiopia This emphasizes that our neutrality lity at the outset is rather lopsided By long odds Italy is on a fairly safe sustaining self-sustaining basis m rn with the precarious situation o of E Ethi Ethi- hi- hi opia When we refuse t to trade with the African Aid can cian an empire we very Definitely ely cut off supplies i it needs while the same refusal w th respect t to Italy is of compa comparatively at vely no sign significance significance significance-es- s cance-'s es especially with n neighbors neighbors' e eager eger ger f for r war p Italy's commercial serving with the Italian embassy at Washington found it on an n op opportune opportune opportune op- op time to be in New York yester yesterday yesterday- ay- ay to remark in an offhand sort of way that any threatened economic c m measures r taken against Italy by the League of Nations would give the United States an opportunity to gain a more se secure secure secure se- se cure foothold in the Italian market It was mentioned that coal c cotton copper oil and manufactured manufactured manufactured man man- goods good would be in special demand It would be presuming a great deal to connect connect connect con con- the attitude of the New York exporters Sig Romolo Angelone's visit there and the de decision decision decision de- de of Austria and Hungary Hungar p of which he may have had an advance inkling But ships clearing clearing clearing clear clear- ing New York and other American an ports for German Baltic and North sea ports would not be going far out of their way to reach Italy War V materials the exporters were careful to say would not be carried in bottoms under the thc American flag They were evidently t willing wining willingto to take a chance under the pres presidential proclamation proclamation proclamation procla procla- mation which warned that dealings with belligerents belligerents belligerents bel bel- would be at lIat their own risk in tn so far faras as articles in o ordinary dina commerce are con con- S Earlier in the week A American shipping in interests m- m n were protesting the severity of the presidents president's presidents president's pres pres- ident's neutrality policies pointing out the losses they would sustain All the these c things put together serve to show that isolationist policies for this his country are be beset beset beset be- be set with many difficulties when it itis is sought to carry them out The Atlantic is not a vast void separating us from Europe for it also so joins us Lothe to Lo the old world with its ship lanes Where there iu- iu are millions to q be bc m made de ou out of war var ti trade de what is a fine and five ve years' years imprisonment Somebody can always be pe fo found d who vho will take the thc rap for a price Neither unselfishness nor patriotism can be legislated d into a |