Word: embargos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dozens of Congressmen and Senators continued to cry angrily for a more stringent embargo against Russia; some for a complete halt of all shipments to the U.S.S.R. Thousands of U.S. citizens, who bitterly recalled pre-Pearl Harbor scrap shipments to Japan, agreed wholeheartedly...
...could be successful until they first had trained troops and sent these troops to battle under competent leadership. There hasn't been any lack of advice. It's been continuous and emphatic and ignored!" He listed the military help the U.S. had already provided since the arms embargo was lifted last May: 130 million rounds of small arms ammunition, 150 C46 transports and 80 light combat planes, 61,000 tons of surplus ammunition, $6,000,000 worth of air-force supplies (at 12½? on the dollar...
...Zionists, watching the slow whittling away of U.S. support, flew to arms. The mistake was not in the partition plan, they cried, but in U.S. vacillation, which encouraged the Arabs to resist. They called for a repeal of the embargo on arms to the Middle East and for U.S. initiative in forming an international police force...
...actually bossed by Franklin Roosevelt. Between Roosevelt and him there was never an "unfriendly word," although "a few emphatic differences rose between us which we thrashed out bluntly but in a friendly spirit." Hull had to make his own decisions "in the majority of cases." He recommended the moral embargo against Italy during the Ethiopian war. He worked out the details with the British on the overage destroyer deal...
This was the first clear case of violation of the U.S. arms embargo (imposed after the United Nations voted to partition Palestine). But undoubtedly it was not the first time Zionists had been drawing on hidden U.S. sources for arms and ammunition. Britain, which has been supplying some Arab states with arms for their national armies, has vainly tried to prevent their diversion to Palestine guerrillas...