The enterprising Japanese airmen who dropped a round of bombs on the U. S. gunboat Panay unwittingly did more than the best efforts of the Committee For A Boycott Against Japanese Aggression and the American League for Peace & Democracy to arouse U. S. citizens to a systematic boycott of Japanese goods.
Chief target of anti-Japanese boycotts is raw silk, which makes up over half of Japan's exports to the U. S., and supplies 92% of the silk used here. Recently Manhattan boycotters staged an "anti-silk parade" and last week students from 150 universities danced in...
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