Word: embargoing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Department cub, he it was who drafted the list of wartime contraband which President Roosevelt charged him with controlling. Mortars, machine guns and methyldichlorarsine are obvious munitions of war. But what about such equally useful, basic implements of war as steel, copper, cotton? In case of hostilities, would an embargo be placed on them, too? Washington wiseacres thought not.* Ever since Benito Mussolini began his dangerous animal act featuring the terrified Lion of Judah and the terrifying Lion of Britain, U. S. cotton and copper producers have enjoyed a brisk business with Italy. According to Capital observers, if the Presidential...
...indeed be thwarted if the government's present attitude is allowed to crystallize into national policy. To carry on trade in commodities, which, after all, are only one degree removed from armaments, promises to embroil the United States in foreign conflicts almost as easily as if there were no embargo at all. In case of a blockade it is important to the blockaders that metals, textiles, and foodstuffs be kept from the closed port as machine guns and explosives themselves...
...associates had a nobler purpose in their fight for neutrality than to enable the United States to pay lip service to peace while reaping profits from commerce with the belligerents. As it becomes increasingly clear that Europe is moving toward war the truth must be recognized that the embargo cannot go too far. Even if the moral standpoint can be disregarded, the practical one cannot. The embargo on armaments is a good beginning, nothing more. To make neutrality a fact as well as a word all commerce with a nation at war, whether in commodities, money, or food must...
These tempered words would not have greatly interested Washington had not the story leaked out of what had taken place in the President's office ten days earlier. Nine Representatives had marched in and resolutely told him that the discretion he desired, to declare an arms embargo against either of two warring nations was, in effect, the power to drag the U. S. into war, a power no prudent President would want and no rash President should have. Angered by such unaccustomed opposition, Franklin Roosevelt snapped that he could if he would put the U.S. into...
...returned across the Channel to bathe in and imbibe the waters of Aix. It was announced that His Majesty's Government, which has been aiding Italy by refusing to sell arms either to Italy, which has plenty, or to Ethiopia, which is short, would probably not lift this embargo at least until after the League Council meets on Sept. 4. After all the dominion representatives in London had been discreetly contacted, Premier Forbes of New Zealand excitedly declared, 11,682 miles away in Wellington: "If Great Britain is involved in war New Zealand will be also...