Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WASHINGTON--Big guns of the Senate's isolationist bloc opened a zero-hour attack on the Administration's Neutrality Revision Bill tonight as leaders of both factions forecast a final vote in the Upper House this week...
...hardly feel justified," said Editor Braden, "in terming Mr. Roosevelt's party a peace bloc...
...this view, it is the manner in which it is expressed. Mr. Conant does not argue the case for repeal. Once his opinion is stated, he drops the issue completely. What follows is an astute bit of mancuvering calculated to put Mr. Landon--and, of course, the embargo bloc as a whole--neatly on the spot. His words show a masterful knowledge of American political machinations...
Franklin Roosevelt last week told Congress that the term "peace bloc" was wide enough to cover both the advocates and opponents of repeal of the embargo on arms to belligerents. His opponents for the most part also indicated that they would not question the motives of their adversaries in the embargo fight. Both attitudes were ingenuous, for the obvious fact was that the emotions of both sides, in Congress and out, were muddled...
...Continuing the arms embargo might make the Allies lose the war, deprive the U. S. of the nations which are now its buffer states against Fascism, leave the U. S. facing the Nazi-Soviet bloc across the Atlantic, force the U. S. to fight the next war caused by Fascist aggression. Rebuttal: The Atlantic is a broad ocean and the next war is not here...