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...more latitude in all these directions. One success was in furthering a self-imposed censorship of cinema (see p. 67). Catholic lobbies maintained in Washington to exert pressure on national legislation have had as their recent targets Child Labor legislation (against it), Federal control of education (against it), the embargo on Loyalist Spain (against lifting...
China, they add, will win IF: 1) the Central Government arms the whole peasantry, whose Communist leanings it mistrusts; 2) the Kuomintang-Communist pact holds; 3) Russia continues to send substantial aid to the Chinese; 4) the U. S. puts an embargo on iron, oil and planes to Japan; 5) England and France do not make a deal to dismember China, as a means of blocking both Japanese imperialism and a possible victory for the Chinese Communists; 6) China does not become another Czecho-Slovakia or Loyalist Spain...
Representing the Student Union, John Stillman '40, president of the Union, spoke before a legislative committee which is considering whether Massachusetts should go on record as favoring the embargo on fights...
...long as there is a ghost of a chance to get it out of danger, there is a job to do," declared Mumford before the gathering of three hundred. He went on to say that even if the Spanish government had capitulated last night Congress ought to raise the Embargo on Spain to "ease its conscience...
Chambers pleaded for action to influence Congress to lift the embargo on Spain contending that there was still time enough to aid the Loyalists in beating Franco. He reported that he had delivered the Harvard Petitions to lift the embargo to the White House...