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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Neutrality Act of 1935, rushed through in the final hours of the first session of the 74th Congress, provides for the specification of what is war material (for instance, any kind of airplane), requires the registration of all U. S. firms dealing in it, forbids its shipment to belligerent nations and permits its shipment abroad under any circumstances only upon receipt of a license from a division of the State Department. The Act became effective in November 1935. just in time to take all the fun out of the Ethiopian war for many a U. S. armorer. But there...
North Dakota's long-nosed Nye, whose defunct Munitions Investigating Committee fostered the Neutrality Act, talked of a new committee to investigate Jersey City's Cuse. "Such an inquiry," added this Senator, "should cover more than this Vimalert affair. We ought to find out how much material other Americans have been sending to the Fascists as well as to the Loyalists in Spain."- Most armorers agree that in spite of the Arms & Munitions Control Office, small shipments of war material have constantly seeped illegally...
Most positive of all official reactions to the Vimalert licensing came from the executive offices of the White House (see p. 13). Pending passage of a Neutrality Act amendment, the State Department broadcast its sincere regrets that the original act had not quite worked. Among those Washington diplomats who received these regrets most graciously were Spain's de los Rios and Russia's Troyanovsky, whose underlings were vigorously denying that Vimalert nowadays has any further dealings with Amtorg. Meantime, nobody had actually set eyes on mysterious Mr. Cuse, the cause of all the commotion. At his Jersey City...
...convict labor at Kentucky's Eddyville penitentiary, was seeking legal authority to make the railroad accept 25 shipments of horse collars & harness which it had refused. But the issue at stake was far bigger than it looked. The railroad's refusal was based on the Ashurst-Sumners Act, passed in 1935, forbidding the shipment of convict-made goods into states which forbid its sale...
...great Spanish Philosopher Miguel de Unamuno who died last week in his beloved Salamanca was said to have cried before he passed away, "The sight of all these Germans in Spain is enough to kill me! They act on Spanish soil as if it were their...