Word: embargos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This information was the more interesting because last week Foreign Relations Chairman Key Pittman-after weeks of outcry by friends of peace and of China, ranging from Elder Statesman Henry Stimson to Author Pearl (The Good Earth) Buck-laid before the Senate a joint resolution authorizing President Roosevelt to embargo all exports (except agricultural products) to Japan, and all imports from her. Reason: the Japanese Government flagrantly violated the Nine Power Treaty, the most solemn treaty ever entered into by the U. S. and Japan. To be sure, this has been true for several years. Senator Pittman thought...
...Ambassador to Europe's newest Dictator Francisco Franco of Spain, the President named Alexander Wilbourne Weddell, *63, of Richmond, Va., urbane careerman whose first consulate 29 years ago was in Zanzibar, and who since 1933 has been trying, as Ambassador, to keep Argentina friendly despite a U. S. embargo on Argentine beef...
Extension was the treatment the Senators were least likely to give to a law which requires the President of the U. S. to embargo war goods to combatants between whom he discerns a "state of war," and to put all other exports to them on a cash & carry basis...
...myself, I agree with the President that there are methods which are 'short of war but stronger and more effective than mere words'. . . . Economic action [by embargo] . . . has the possibility of most effective restraint...
...poll, conducted by the Student Committee for Non-Participation in Japanese Aggression, shows that 15 per cent of the replies were opposed to a Japanese embargo, while 25 per cent hadn't made up their minds...