Goodman

Goodman is appealing from a judgment pronounced against him after conviction under an indictment charging him with conspiring with Takizawa, Nakauchi, Ta-kahashi, Yamaguchi and Keeler to export industrial diamonds from the United States to Japan without a license, in violation of 50 U.S.C.A. Appendix, § 701 1 and the Presidential Proclamation of July 2, 1940.

*855 The principal ground urged by the appellant for a reversal relates to the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the verdict. We briefly summarize the evidence upon which the Government relies:

Appellant is a native citizen of the United States and was engaged in the import-export business for a number of years.

Takahashi had been traveling between the United States and Japan since 1907, in connection with his [Takahashi’s] business of importing and exporting various articles of merchandise between the two countries.

Takahashi and appellant first met in 1937, and since then appellant has acted as broker in several instances in the purchase of merchandise by Takahashi in connection with the latter’s export business. These purchases were principally old silk stockings which were purchased for re-manufacture in…