Word: embargoing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four members of the Union Debating Society took part in a debate in the Upper Common Room of the Union last night on the subject: "Resolved, That in the event of a foreign war on insurrection, an embargo should immediately go into ecect upon exportation of munitions...
Speaking for the affirmative, Phil C. Neal '40 stated that an arms embargo was the first step in a series of measures designed to insure American neutrality in case war should break...
...Congress, to help stop bloody war in the Chaco jungles, authorized the President to forbid shipment of U. S. arms and munitions to Bolivia and Paraguay. President Roosevelt promptly proclaimed such an embargo, kept it in force until November 1935. Last January Curtiss-Wright Export Corp. and others were indicted for selling 15 machine guns to Bolivia during the embargo. In defense they argued that Congress had improperly delegated its power to the President. A Federal District judge in Brooklyn agreed with them, dismissed the indictment. The Government appealed to the Supreme Court...
Success with Spain. The same "Tammany" forces which failed to exclude Ethiopia last week had been simultaneously applying pressure to prevent the Madrid Cabinet from formally demanding that the League Assembly take action about the munitions now reaching Spain's White Armies contrary to the declared embargo of the Great Powers (TIME, Sept. 7 et ante). Possibly because Madrid is now also beginning to get such munitions, Geneva success was achieved by those putting the pinch on Spanish Foreign Minister Julio Alvarez del Vayo. While he could not be persuaded to keep quiet, his empurpled and highflown Latin oration...
...Spain last week (see p. 19). the British and French lobbied furiously in efforts to prevent Spanish Foreign Minister Julio Alvarez del Vayo from asking the Assembly of the League of Nations to do something about Portuguese-German-Italian aid to the Spanish Whites and about the Great Powers embargo denying arms to Madrid. In a Geneva newspaper article signed by Portuguese Foreign Minister Dr. Armindo Rodriguez de Ittau Monteiro, he strongly hinted that if Madrid by any chance won the Spanish Civil War its Reds would next have to fight Portugal...