Word: prohibition
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Leon Blum, onetime Premier of France, was attacked as an "unconscious" German agent by the reactionary Paris Matin, he wrote an answer for his own Socialist daily, Le Populaire, that began: "We don't see how censorship could prohibit us from making a legitimate reply." The rest was censored. Next week Editor Blum tried a trick that worked for Georges Clemenceau in War I: he sent copies of a censored article by mail to members of the Chamber of Deputies. They were seized by postal censors...
...grounds that both repeal or retention of the Neutrality Act's arms embargo might lead the U. S. into World War II, Herbert Hoover now proposed that the U. S. sell freely "defensive" weapons (pursuit & light observation planes, anti-aircraft guns), prohibit forever the sale of "offensive" weapons (bombing planes, bombs, poison gas, submarines...
...support the "Cash and Carry System;" to restrict short term credits and to prohibit all long term credits...
...control over grain futures markets, can set permissible limits beyond which no future can rise in a single day. And the President, in addition to his power to cut he dollar to 50% of its old gold-standard ralue (it is now 59%) has the power to regulate or prohibit all dealings in foreign exchange...
...Free City of Danzig's government is supervised by a League of Nations High Commissioner. Poland's rights there are limited to the administration of customs, railroads, and foreign relations. Internally Danzig is autonomous. Thus the treaties which gave Poland an outlet to the sea through Danzig prohibit Polish military occupation of that outlet. On the Westerplatte, a low bank at the entrance to Danzig Harbor, however, is generally harbored a small garrison of Polish troops which guards a Polish ammunition warehouse. Behind those troops is an incident of 1920, when German Communist dock workers held...