Word: hull
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...record, Mr. Hull patiently reiterated once more that, in his view, with war threatening, the President should be relieved of the necessity of declaring an embargo on "arms, ammunitions and implements of war" at war's outbreak. The need to preserve a neutral's rights under international law was his formal argument for revision, but he restated Franklin Roosevelt's interventionist intentions to the satisfaction of the Isolationists who had blocked them, when he said...
Fact is, polls of public opinion on Neutrality have strongly supported the well-known Hull-Roosevelt desire to support the Democracies (with arms but not men) against the Dictators. The Bloom bill, passed by the House but now allowed to die in the Senate, was not wholly unacceptable to Messrs. Hull & Roosevelt because its embargo exempted airplanes, motors and the like, which England and France need badly. Under the present Neutrality Law if Hitler marches before September U. S. manufacturers must be stopped from delivering some $175,000,000 worth of airplanes, etc. which" have Been ordered...
...Hull's opinion on a straight war-materials embargo resolution against Japan, promising his committee's Isolationists he would not let a Neutrality rider be attached to it if it went before the Senate...
...days before, Ronald G. Van Tine of the U. P. had been told by a Senator (whom he refused to name) that the President was "hopping mad" over the shelving of his Neutrality Bill, that Secretary Hull was urging him not to send a "forceful" message to Congress. The U. P.'s Grattan P. McGroarty had got similar news at the State Department. Correspondents Van Tine and McGroarty sent out a story, under Van Tine's signature, beginning: "President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull were reported in Administration quarters today to have disagreed on the language...
NEUTRALITY NOTE SPLITS F. D., HULL...