Word: evens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thing be done thoroughly, let the appearance be well kept up, as in Switzerland. Let the president be, as there, a furtive creature and insignificant, not merely coming no man knows whence, nor merely passing no man knows whither, but existing no man knows where; and existing not even as a name-except on the tip of the tongue...
Meanwhile the Nye committee pumped J. P. Morgan, Thomas Lament and their partners, trying to prove that they had helped to grease the skids that plunged the U. S. into war. There was no evidence that they had tried to. It could not even be proved that they had done so unwittingly. Whatever the Nye committee did or did not prove, the new Peace Passion of the U. S. had to have an outlet. Its outlet was the Neutrality Act of August...
...embargo the shipments of lethal weapons to these countries in the event of war, any interested European nation-say. Germany -could step in and subsidize the sort of victory that seemed best calculated to damage the Monroe Doctrine. The U. S. would thus find its neutrality policy contravening an even older policy and threatening the safety of the Panama Canal, which is vital to the two-ocean effectiveness of the U. S. fleet. For this reason the present bill provides exceptions virtually excusing the U. S. from mandatory neutrality in any Latin-American...
...weakness of even-handed embargoes is that in practice they are quite capable of working to the long term disadvantage and danger of the U. S. The weakness of embargoes against aggressor nations only is that they may lead to near-term difficulties and dangers. If the U. S. were to apply economic sanctions against Japan as an "aggressor" without first enlisting the cooperation of the British fleet and fortified Singapore Base, it would probably find itself hard put to it to keep its trade lanes open to the Malayan Archipelago, whence comes most U. S. rubber...
Across the China Sea and far into the interior of Asia, 2,200 miles away, at Chungking, China's temporary capital, the atmosphere seemed brighter, even though half the people had left the city in fear of air raids. There were several mass meetings and the damaged and scarred city blossomed out in a new coating of war cartoons and slogans pasted on the walls of half-ruined buildings. That night Japanese bombers came over again in the moonlight, killed 50 persons in the city and damaged the British gunboat Falcon lying at anchor in the Yangtze...