Word: embargoing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aggressor in any war. Then & there arose the issue which has divided U. S. neutrality-seekers ever since, setting the Senate implacably against the President and State Department. Unwilling to let the President pick sides in a war by naming the aggressor, isolationist Senators asserted that an arms embargo should apply automatically to all belligerents. Otherwise, they argued, the embargoed nation would be certain to strike back exactly as Germany had struck. Firmly the State Department held that the President should be allowed to decide when and against whom he would lay an arms embargo. Only by holding that threat...
...there was no stopping the tide. Already that morning Senator Borah had taken Chairman Pittman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee firmly in hand, in three hours helped him draft a Neutrality Resolution with provision for a mandatory arms embargo. Called up the next day, it went through the Senate with a unanimous roar that left its sponsors blinking...
...Senate resolution provided that on the outbreak of a war (which was left undefined) the President should at once proclaim its existence, forbid shipment of "arms, ammunition & implements of war" (also undefined) to each & every belligerent. To enforce that embargo U. S. munitioneers were to be licensed by a National Munitions Control Board, U. S. ships forbidden to carry munitions direct to belligerent ports, or to neutral ports for transshipment. At his discretion the President could also forbid U. S. citizens to travel on belligerent ships except at their own risk. The Senate, in effect, was issuing a "must" order...
Chairman McReynolds left the White House considerably sobered. In his pocket he carried President Roosevelt's surrender to the nation's war scare. Reluctantly the President had written a memorandum accepting a mandatory, all-round arms embargo provided it should be effective only until...
Chairman McReynolds took with him also a prime trading point to force the Senate peacemen to accept the President's compromise. Ardently did he and a majority of the House desire to lay down an absolute embargo on loans & credits to warring nations. Except for the Nye-Clark bloc, the Senate was flatly opposed to such action. Therefore, threatened Chairman McReynolds, let the Senate peacemen accept the President's compromise or he would write a loans & credits embargo into their resolution, thus killing off neutrality legislation at this session...