Word: sanctions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...edges were rough fortnight ago when he spoke of the "extreme sanction" (blockade) as something into which not even the League of Nations could get Great Britain unless he knew beforehand what attitude the U. S. would take-i.e., that Washington would help. By last week Statesman Baldwin was rounding his rough notion smooth. "The most extreme sanction," he declared wisely at Wolverhampton, "would be a very difficult one in the absence of three countries now outside the League-America, Japan and Germany...
...would never sanction this country indulging in a blockade of that kind unless assured of the sympathetic support at least of those three great neutral countries. It would surely be the bitterest and cruelest irony of history if the League, in attempting to enforce peace in some localized area, only succeeded in setting fire to the world, starting a war which might run from Pole to Pole...
...campaign headquarters: "The Government are as much embarrassed by the attacks of Lloyd George and Snowden as a lion facing two gnats." Presently a secretary told Tycoon Cadman that Gnat Lloyd George had declared in what he meant for a stinging attack on His Majesty's Government: "Sanctions will not stop the advance of Mussolini's army, not by one hour! They will not save one Ethiopian life. Sanctions will not prevent guns and ammunition, or any war material or troops, from passing from Italy to reinforce the attack on Ethiopia. They are passing freely...
...bargaining without the teeth of the Wagner Bill is one of those pleasant expressions U. S. politicians have used since the steam engine was invented, without ever giving thought to that A B C of government, that there can be no justice without law. and no law without a sanction. Either Republicans of the Knox and Hoover type do not know this, and in that event we deprecate their naivete, or they are insincere in holding out to Labor a palm that is greasy with the stuff from Wall Street that makes the G. O. P. machine go round...
...shoes to avoid delays for wardrobe replacements. Transatlantic Tunnel (Gaumont-British) exhibits the British cinema industry, long noted for its delvings into history, hopefully examining the future. Suggested by the speech in which Stanley Baldwin declared that an alliance between the U. S. and Britain would be a sanction no power on earth would dare to face (TIME, June 17), it proposes an intercontinental subway line and shows the difficulties involved in engineering such a marvel. The workers are hampered by a submarine volcano, the machinations of an armament tycoon and domestic difficulties that beset the chief engineer (Richard...