Word: embargoing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...troops into Poland recently was undoubtedly of little surprise to Secretary of State Cordell Hull. The reason: In TIME, July 17, p. 19, he is quoted as having privately made the following statement to Congressmen. "Hitler will march in September-unless we pass this legislation" (repeal of the arms embargo). Prognosticator Hull deserves praise and acclaim for being so farsighted and foretelling this momentous event...
What he wanted was immediate, non-partisan action by Congress in special session to repeal the embargo on U. S. arms shipments to belligerents. The conferees agreed on non-partisan action for peace (but not, said Alf Landon afterward, to the point of forgoing partisan politics in 1940 and handing Franklin Roosevelt a third term). But they gave no committal whatsoever on the embargo. Franklin Roosevelt's biggest net gain was Jack Garner's potent support-at least for 30 days...
...belligerent nation often needs wheat and lard and cotton . . . just as much as it needs anti-aircraft guns. . . . . . . Let those who seek to retain the present embargo be wholly consistent and seek new legislation to cut off cloth and copper and meat and wheat and a thousand other articles from all of the nations...
There is, of course, the third possibility to be considered-that the Embargo will be abolished and no legislation enacted to take its place. In that case the United States would have to depend on International Law to protect its neutrality; what is International law has best been described by Charles A. Beard-"a veritable jumble of claims, assertions . . . and hot contentions." These then are the bare facts. In themselves they point in no definite direction, yet they must underlie any valid opinion on the neutrality issue...
WASHINGTON--The Senate Foreign Relations Committee today received an Administration neutrality revision bill containing minor concessions to President Roosevelt's isolationist opponents but providing for repeal of the mandatory arms embargo and the substitution of a modified cash-and-carry policy of dealing with belligerents...