Word: boycotts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There were no social functions, no civic ceremonies. All sessions were to be closed but President Heywood Broun of the American Newspaper Guild got them opened after the first day. Like A. F. of L., C. I. O. declared for a Japanese boycott, condemned the National Labor Relations Board. It unanimously resolved that contracts were sacred. It announced that it had spent $1,745,968 in the past 16 months, more than $900,000 on the steel strike alone. But just as C. I. 0. was A. F. of L.'s principal business, so A. F. of L. turned...
...boycott Japan," U. S. radio listeners were told by former Chinese Ambassador to the U. S. Dr. Alfred Sao-Ke Sze, broadcasting from Shanghai, "you will find you have contributed to the greatest single step of progress in history...
...Boycott Japan? In London last week New York Times Bureau Manager Ferdinand Kuhn Jr., after sounding out best contacts with His Majesty's Government, cabled: "An economic boycott of Japan appears at the moment to be ruled out, for the British Government will have none of it. Without in the least trying to minimize Mr. Roosevelt's speech, the British doubt that the President himself intended to encourage such a boycott when he spoke of a 'quarantine' of aggressor nations. The most that can be hoped for, in the British view, is another of those...
...Minister Neville Chamberlain at once took action to fill in what His Majesty's Government regarded as the most vital part of the Chicago speech- its blanks. The British Embassy in Washington was instructed to ask exactly what the President wants to do, what he means by "quarantine" ("boycott"?) and other loose or unusual words in the Chicago speech...
...United Kingdom it would be good "dollar diplomacy" to join an economic boycott of Japan sure to benefit Britain's depressed textile industry, now hamstrung by Japanese competition, but as the London Daily Express asked: "Are those demanding Sanctions against Japan prepared to go to war to enforce them?" Mr. Roosevelt can figure on trying to "quarantine" only Japan, but should Britain fall in with this she may find the logic of her League connections driving her to also "quarantine" Italy and perhaps every other nation which has intervened in Spain or sent its nationals to fight there...