Word: embargos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have lately been full of discussions of "Jewish Bolshevism." Dr. Scanlan has particularly incurred Jewish displeasure by recommending that Dr. Albert Einstein be sent back to Germany, "where persecution might again impress him with its heinousness"-because Dr. Einstein joined Princeton professors in an appeal for lifting the arms embargo on Spain...
...Secretary Hull last fortnight went a copy of a Senate Resolution introduced by North Dakota's Nye, proposing to end the embargo on arms shipments to the Spanish Government. Last week, after conferring with Franklin Roosevelt, Mr. Hull sent the Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Key Pittman his reply. This was a terse note to the effect that having adopted a policy of "strict noninterference" the U. S. could not now consistently alter it; and that "even if the legislation applied to both parties, its enactment would still subject us to unnecessary risks we have so far avoided." Furthermore, wrote...
Hazard No. 2 was a Senate resolution introduced by North Dakota's Nye suggesting that the U. S. repeal the embargo on shipments of arms to Spain. Passed in January 1937, the embargo has been consistently criticized for doing less to effect U. S. neutrality than to assist Generalissimo Franco, by its disheartening effect on the Loyalist Government. Like the Scott Resolution three weeks ago, the Nye Resolution apparently had the tacit approval of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. With the President still off on his fishing trip, Secretary Hull decided to delay his shot-in the form of a note...
...wharf meeting concluded with a chant of "End the embargo on Loyalist Spain" to the tune of "Ring around the Rosy...
Admitting that he did not approve of sanctions, Bernard said, "If the President would lift the Spanish arms embargo, as I certainly believe he should, democratic forces in both France and England would be materially aided...