Word: abroad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secretary of State Hull trudged into the White House one day last week looking glum and tired. Despite his reiterated warnings that war abroad was imminent, and that if it came the President of the U. S. should have a hand more free than he is allowed under the present Neutrality Act, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee had just voted finally not to revise Neutrality at this session of Congress. The Committee's vote was close: 12-to-11. It was particularly painful to Cordell Hull because one of those who voted against him was his old friend Walter...
Time & again last week Chairman Key Pittman postponed a showdown in his Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the biggest question this Congress has had before it: The Neutrality law, the rules of behavior for the President of the U. S. should war break out abroad. The House had sent up the Bloom bill putting half a halter on the President, obliging him to embargo U. S. "arms & ammunition" (but not other material such as planes, motors, trucks, oil, cotton) to belligerents (TIME, July 10). Reason Senator Pittman delayed seemed to be that he was not at all sure of being...
...against any discretion being lodged in the hands of any Chief Executive to determine an aggressor or aggressors during any war abroad...
...woman or child suffering privations; but if they do so the fault does not lie with us ... for any day it can be ended by a policy of cooperation. ... I come next to Lebensraum [living space]. ... It can only be solved by ... adjusting and improving . . . relations with other countries abroad. [But it is] impossible to negotiate with a Government whose responsible spokesmen brand a friendly country as thieves and blackmailers...
...tried early in Federal court rather than later by courtmartial. A pacifist might exhaust every means, legal or otherwise, of avoiding war service, and still be forced into the trenches. The Handbook lists a series of noncooperating steps which he might take, The list ends: "8. Go abroad but refuse to go to the front. 9. Go to the front but refuse to kill the enemy...