Word: suasion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...revise Neutrality at this session of Congress. The Committee's vote was close: 12-to-11. It was particularly painful to Cordell Hull because one of those who voted against him was his old friend Walter George of Georgia, upon whom he had exerted long and prayerful suasion. Now revision of Neutrality was lost, probably unless and until Adolf Hitler should march, and then Mr. Hull thought it would be too late...
...signed by Sir Samuel Hoare and M. Pierre Laval, with every prospect that it would be accepted by Benito Mussolini and adorned with the signature of Haile Selassie after a little suasion, "The Deal" provided in essence that II Duce should content himself with roughly half of Ethiopia and agree to the continued rule of its Emperor over the rest. Had "The Deal" gone through, Ethiopians would have been spared the horrors of wide spread poison gas warfare; Haile Selassie would have been reigning in Addis Ababa last week instead of being snubbed in London (see p. 20) ; and Britain...
...munitions; 2) abnormal quantities of other commodities essential to war. Point No. 1 of the President's policy exists as law only until the Neutrality Resolution passed by Congress last session shall expire on Feb. 29. Point No. 2 has thus far been only a matter of moral suasion by President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull. Few hours before the President spoke, there was introduced in both Senate and House, by Chairman Key Pittman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Chairman Sam D. McReynolds of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, an Administration-backed bill which proposed...
Just how effective Presidential suasion may be was illustrated by a little anecdote that Franklin Roosevelt told his press conference. On Sept. 20 George F. Johnson, chairman of Endicott Johnson Corp. (shoes), lunching at Hyde Park, sounded out the President on whether his company should accept a large order for shoes from the Italian Government. Were they ladies' slippers? the President asked ironically. No, Mr. Johnson replied, they might be used for army boots. Thereupon the President advised Shoeman Johnson not to accept the order...
Then came one sentence of suasion...