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...climax of a University-wide drive for student and faculty signatures, 100 petitions requesting that the embargo on Spanish arms shipments be lifted will be sent by plane to Washington tomorrow to President Roosevelt...
Senior William Chambers will carry the petitions to the capital, where he has arranged for a personal interview with the President's secretary, Marvin McIntyre on the subject of the embargo...
That night in Washington some 800 delegates representing 274 organizations met to urge lifting the embargo. A rival "Keep the Embargo" meeting packed in 4,000, turned 2,000 away. Adroitly its sponsors presented not only Catholic churchmen as speakers but a Protestant onetime Ambassador to Spain, Irwin Laughlin, and a one time counsel of President Roosevelt (during his second term as Governor of New York State), Martin Conboy, who argued neutrality's case...
...next day, Congressmen, always sensitive to letters and telegrams, were getting plenty from the embargo-keepers...
Nevada's Senator McCarran, good Roman Catholic and father of two nuns,* declared that any attempt to lift the embargo "will be met by Senate opposition that will be remembered for a long time to come...