Word: embargoing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issue, and he had eight specific instances of it between Dec. 30, and mid-March. The Suez Canal Co. reported that over 250 tons of Italian poison gas had passed the canal in the last four months. Italy must either agree to an immediate armistice or face an oil embargo, was the Eden ultimatum...
Considerably upset were these peace-lovers when Walter Millis, author of Road to War, text book of the Peace Bloc (TIME, Jan. 20), declared in a Scripps-Howard interview: "Extension of last year's arms embargo is about as far as we can proceed safely with a neutrality program at present. ... We must not forget that legislation may work in a quite unforeseeable fashion when an actual war arises. ... No man can say categorically how any neutrality program would function in the face of a real crisis such as a serious outbreak in Europe...
...Pittman-McReynolds bill would further allow the President to prohibit shipment to belligerents of abnormal amounts of any commodities essential to war, except food and medical supplies. Kinds and "normal" amounts of commodities would be fixed by him. Modifying its mandatory embargo on loans & credits, the bill would empower the President to permit ordinary commercial credits and short-term obligations necessary to normal business...
...This bombing may prove to have the same political effect as the torpedoing of the Lusitania, particularly in regard to the United States, whose attitude on an oil embargo may be decisive for the Italians...
...Eden's task will be to steer a course through obstacles heaped in apparently inextricable confusion. Premier Laval's clever move in leaving the final [French] decision on the oil embargo to the Chamber of Deputies makes London doubtful of the possibility of proceeding in that direction at all because the French Premier coupled this concession with the notice that there would be a need for simultaneously declaring mobilization of several classes of reservists. No French Deputy in his senses, with an election impending, can vote for putting thousands of electors into uniform...