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...spirit of the hour both Senate and House hastily authorized President Roosevelt to place an embargo on shipments of arms to both sides in the minor squabble. The League of Nations joined the U. S. in this first attempt to discourage a war by refusing to sell lethal weapons to both combatants. The arms embargo did not stop the fighting...
...embargo limited merely to lethal weapons, would not close U. S. ports to shipments of cotton, copper, steel, wheat to Britain and France. In the last war most of pre-1917 U. S. trade with the Allies was in raw materials. They did most of their own fabrication of guns & powder. There is always Canada, where a vast system of U. S.-owned branch factories would most likely spring up to manufacture armament and airplanes for an anti-Hitler coalition. But an embargo on raw materials would mean the obsolescence of the American merchant marine, or at least its diversion...
Neutrality legislation of the 1936-37 type might have curious effects in the event of a war involving, say, Brazil and the Argentine. If the U.S. were to 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...
...running fight with advocates of repealing the Neutrality act entirely, returning U. S. war policy to due process of international law. This plan was beaten, but then Ohio's Republican Representative Vorys proposed keeping at least half a halter on Franklin Roosevelt, obliging him to embargo at least "lethal weapons." To the House leadership's shocked surprise, this proposal carried. But the vote was only 159 to 157 in committee-of-the-whole. Mr. Roosevelt's men confidently expected to beat it next day in the final voting of the whole House...
...destroy cancer cells, but no scientist had ever worked out a satisfactory theory for this phenomenon. Two years ago Italian-born Physicist Gioacchino Failla, who is in charge of the physics and biophysics laboratories at Manhattan's famed Memorial Hospital, suggested a straight-forward physical theory for the lethal effect of X-rays. An electric charge passing through a cell, said Dr. Failla, divides the molecules of protoplasm into positively and negatively charged particles. These ions then recombine to form new chemical substances. In a vain attempt to re-establish osmotic equilibrium in the cell, water from the intercellular...