Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wood withdrew to digest his reports, the President called a White House conference of members from both parties. To them he would put his ideas, weigh their opinions and objections. The decision called for all the statesmanship he possessed. He could risk everything now on one smashing fight to repeal the entire act-which his advisers held would be an enormous boost to the morale of all the world. Or he could move as he has been moving, step by step, whittling the act's barriers away one by one. The first choice would involve great risks. Even defeat...
University of Wisconsin. The Cardinal, mildly interventionist last year, last fortnight demanded repeal of the Neutrality...
Instead of coming out and asking for a direct repeal of both Section 6 (the ship-arming ban) and Section 2 (the combat zone restrictions which prevent us from sending our merchant ships all the way to England), the President preferred to be strategic. He "recommended" that Congress concentrate its efforts on voting down Section 6 alone, and save the other section for "early consideration...
...reason for recommending separate consideration of the sections is that he knows many isolationists are willing to allow the arming of merchant ships while keeping them in restricted waters. By splitting the sections he is certain to get the repeal of Section 6 and the main round of the fight will not come until Section 2 is put in the ring...
Instead of being able to amass their ranks for an out-and-out repeal of the Act, the Administration forces must wait and time their vote on Section 2 from two cues: the size and promptness of the vote on the ship-arming ban, and the success of opposition arguments in influencing public opinion. Once more, the War Congress has been hog-tied by the President's incurable habit of double talk, of trying to let the American people down easy on the one hand, and to defeat Hitler on the other...