Word: embargo
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...Repeal of the arms embargo now would make the Germans very angry and possibly lead them to take reprisals against the U. S. (against U. S. shipping, for example), thereby drawing the U. S. into war. Rebuttal: The Nazis have been and always will be angry with the U. S. whenever it suits them. They are just as likely to take reprisals against the U. S. in spite of the arms embargo, for from a military standpoint, it is just as important to them to shut off the Allies from food and the materials from which arms are made...
...Allies, the whole U. S. economy will become dependent on war trade-business will depend on it for profits, labor for jobs, possibly even lenders for the security of their loans-and eventually the U. S. will have to go to war to save its customers. Rebuttal: Embargo or no embargo, the U. S. is going to have a huge war trade, for the Allies will need war materials. In the last war only 10% to 25% of the Allied purchases in the U. S. were arms. If the Allies cannot get arms, they will take more material for making...
Shall or May. Like all political fights, this one could be minimized into a quarrel over terms-in this case a grammarian's choice: the word "may" or the word "shall." Vandenberg helped draft the arms embargo clause for the Neutrality Act; in it he insisted that when a state of war was found to exist, the President "shall proclaim" an embargo on sales of arms to belligerents...
...there almost daily, swore to keep the U. S. out of that "entangling alliance." Last week, in the same room, around the same Hiram Johnson (but now conservative and weak-voiced) another dozen-and-a-half gathered, pledged themselves to U. S. isolation and to defense of the arms embargo...
...split party lines. Such men as Ernest Tener Weir of Weirton Steel, who sees no sense in costly plant expansion to make munitions for profits the Government will then confiscate, moved to support Vandenberg. But Washington lobbies were thick with the agents of Big Business, plugging embargo repeal furiously over the fumes of free cigars. And such business-sensitive newspapers as the Wall Street Journal and the New York Herald Tribune were hailing their onetime target, Franklin Roosevelt, and sniping anti-repealers...