Word: embargoing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Relations Committee on the biggest question this Congress has had before it: The Neutrality law, the rules of behavior for the President of the U. S. should war break out abroad. The House had sent up the Bloom bill putting half a halter on the President, obliging him to embargo U. S. "arms & ammunition" (but not other material such as planes, motors, trucks, oil, cotton) to belligerents (TIME, July 10). Reason Senator Pittman delayed seemed to be that he was not at all sure of being able to rid the President of that half-halter. And the reason...
...breaks out in the world, he considers-and Secretary of State Hull agrees with him-to be a handicap to statesmanship. In seeking revision of the Neutrality law which Congress fastened upon him two years ago, Mr. Roosevelt this year sought primarily to remove his obligation to declare an embargo on "implements of war" for belligerents. The revised Neutrality act offered in the House last month by New York's prognathous Sol Bloom was drawn with this in view, and all seemed set for its passage...
...weary after a running fight with advocates of repealing the Neutrality act entirely, returning U. S. war policy to due process of international law. This plan was beaten, but then Ohio's Republican Representative Vorys proposed keeping at least half a halter on Franklin Roosevelt, obliging him to embargo at least "lethal weapons." To the House leadership's shocked surprise, this proposal carried. But the vote was only 159 to 157 in committee-of-the-whole. Mr. Roosevelt's men confidently expected to beat it next day in the final voting of the whole House...
...Clamping an arms embargo on Japan...
...plea, advanced by Secretary of State Cordell Hull, proposed re-enactment of several of present Neutrality Law's provisions, including, in effect, the expired "cash-and-carry" clause. However, Hull asked removal of the mandatory arms embargo provisions...