Word: embargo
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...stick, the U.S. had been shouting loudly to cover up the fact that it could not use its big stick, for reasons of Hemisphere policy. The Argentines refused to be bluffed. Short of armed force, about the only effective action against Argentina would be a joint U.S.-British embargo on Argentine trade. Britain was reluctant, for three good reasons. Argentines knew all three...
...mused Marmaduke, "the epic peice would be wittled down to a few lines which dident even scan, and would be handed back to the noble poet with the embargo: 'Not for publication before 00.30 hours B.S.T. . . .' And the noble poet would probely give up poetry altogether and get a job writing hand-outs for the Ministry...
...Whole Story." With solemn gusto, Franklin Roosevelt then read the roll of the war measures which the Republicans in Congress had opposed: Repeal of the Arms Embargo, 1939; Selective Service, 1940; Lend-Lease, 1941; extension of Selective Service, August...
...days after the shipping embargo, President Roosevelt came to the support of Hull's action. Said the President: "This situation presents the extraordinary paradox of the growth of Nazi-Fascist in fluence and the increasing application of Nazi-Fascist methods in a country ... at the very time that those forces of aggression are drawing ever closer in final defeat and judgment in Europe and elsewhere in the world. . . . The Argentine Government has repudiated solemn inter-American obligations...
...became scarce, other nations might, with the consent of the Fund, ration the scarce currency. This means that if the U.S. insists on selling more than it buys (making dollars hard for others to get), other nations, instead of having to give up their gold, can put a partial embargo against U.S. imports. This would leave the U.S. free to choose its course but would put a penalty on abuse of that freedom...