Word: embargoing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Blennerhassett cellars for liquor. Subsequently, someone knocked over a candle. Up went the hemp, up went the wing, up went all that was left of Harman Blennerhassett's mansion in the wilderness. In Canada, whither the Blennerhassetts had moved following the embargo of the War of 1812 and the collapse of the cotton market, Mrs. Blennerhassett wrote a melancholy elegy to her Ohio River home: Like mournful echo, from the silent tomb, That pines away upon the midnight air, While the pale moon breaks out, with fitful gloom; Fond memory turns with sad, but welcome care, To scenes...
What, exactly, is "our influence, short of becoming involved in the dispute itself"? It is great, but only because we might become involved. The League, for example, would hesitate to apply an embargo without assurance that the United States would not insist on its full trading rights. To guaranteee neutrality, we have already decided to forego some of these rights, and a further extension of the materials of war list could not be considered as unfriendly by Italy. Nevertheless, we must state specifically that such action is taken in our own interest, not in co-operation with the League. Otherwise...
Trying was a mild description of Mr. Hull's hours. The custodian of an arms embargo against Italy and Ethiopia and a brace of general neutrality proclamations had, as yet, no record of actual munitions being bootlegged to either belligerent. But U. S. motormakers, it was revealed, had already shipped 2,200 trucks and busses to the Italians in Africa. Thumbing his nose at the State Department, President Walter Teagle of Standard Oil of New Jersey announced that his firm had been doing business with Italy for more than 40 years and was not ready to quit...
...ground that he needed his troops in those two towns to protect foreigners from his civilian subjects. Next offer was to spare the road if Ethiopia promised to transport no munitions on it. Haile Selassie appeared to leap at this idea. Since the League lifted its arms embargo against Ethiopia, guns and ammunition have been coming into the black empire, not by way of the railroad from Djibouti but by motor truck to Harar, 125 miles from the British Somaliland border...
...startling. Instead of struggling to maintain our rights as neutrals, we are abrogating all such claims. Under the Neutrality Act passed in the last season of Congress, the course of action which the United States will follow differs in every respect from that of 1914-1917. A complete embargo on any articles employed in war will remove the American Merchant Marine from the necessity of defending itself. Henceforth American citizens will travel on Italian ships, (and on Ethiopian ships too) only at their own responsibility...