Word: embargoing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Britain . . . therefore asks the Council to send telegrams at once to the governments whose co-operation is necessary to enforce an arms embargo...
...should like to recapitulate the history of the proposal for an arms embargo. It was on the initiative of the British Government that an exchange of views took place originally more than a year ago, between the Governments of the United Kingdom, the United States, France and Italy, with a view to an agreement between them prohibiting the export of arms to Bolivia and Paraguay...
...number of states made their acceptance subject to acceptance of the declaration by a specific number of other states, including the United States. The Government of the latter country, however, stated they were unable to impose an embargo until necessary legislation was passed by Congress, and no such legislation was passed...
...tough luck on the crew, but it was also another million-dollar order. And let Mr. Stoddard consider that the war propaganda was largely generated not by those who wanted to buy, but by those who wanted to sell American products. Mr. Stoddard is kind to those men. An embargo on arms would be perhaps "too heroic a self-denying ordinance." He says we should do as much war-business as "we legitimately can," on gold payment, goods-payment, and short-term credits if necessary. And finally, by maintaining a strong armed neutrality, and at the worst "only entering...
...work of making Germany ready for us. We must soon go home." Then he let out the real reason for the family council. His fortune (estimated at $175,000,000), hard hit by the fall of the dollar and pound, had dwindled sadly. Final blow was Germany's embargo on money except in minuscule amounts. Old Wilhelm was not getting his German rents. His secretaries were commuting between Doom and the Reich, bringing out all the cash the law allowed at each trip. Still it was not enough. In fact, the man whom Germans used to think...