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...Lift the embargo on Loyalist Spain! Lift the embargo on Loyalist Spain...
...that bomb-pocked Barcelona was falling and U. S. warboats were speeding to evacuate U. S. citizens (see p. 14). Letters and telegrams poured in at the White House. Even North Dakota's Senator Gerald P. Nye, longtime champion of the Neutrality Act, came out for lifting the embargo on Loyalist Spain. Even the President's wife made a speech about Neutrality...
While isolationist senators in Washington are blowing off steam and the nation's newspapers are obligingly headlining their sensational remarks, clearer heads are calmly reexamining the implications of America's new foreign policy. In this connection the Harvard petition asking removal of the embargo on Loyalist Spain, although ill-timed and misdirected, is nevertheless an indication of a constructive attitude toward American cooperation in the world...
...document concludes by citing the opinions of former Secretary of State Henry Stimson, Associate Professor Arthur N. Holcombe, Assistant Professor Payson S. Wild, and Associate Professor Rupert Emerson that the President has the power to lift the embargo himself...
...elected government of Spain, we nevertheless impose no restrictions on such sales to Italy and Germany. Thus, unable to supply her men with the most elementary equipment, Barcelona had to succumb . . . to German and Italian arms . . . The interests of peace and sane international relations demand that the arms embargo be lifted...