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...Catholic pro-Franco minority last week did a workmanlike job of sitting down hard on the U. S. arms embargo on Spain, which many a friend of the Loyalists had hoped to have lifted during the present session of Congress. The "Lift the Embargo" campaign had the support of President Roosevelt's passing reference to the injustice of such measures in his opening message to Congress. But the lifters, badly stage-managed, strained a muscle in their first heave last week...
...More territory" is of course merely representative of power on a world scale; the U.S. would still not fight, or even impose an economic embargo, to prevent Italian acquisition of Tunis. Still, the poll means that Americans have finally realized that their nation is a part of the world; that Britain, long the strategically dominating factor in Europe and the first line of defense for America's isolationism, no longer holds that position; that Berlin is closer--several days closer, by steamship--to Rio de Janiero than is New York; and that, as the President yesterday said, "democracies...
...could be made in a few afternoons, at small expense; and the language of bonfires seems to be the only one that Germans at present understand. If these mass-demonstrations were on a scale sufficiently large, they would suggest that democracy has something to say. The question of an embargo would soon take care of itself if the phrase "Made in Germany" became a general synonym for all that is contemptible and base...
Against: TVA amendments, holding company "health sentence," Frazier-Lemke Farm Mortgage Moratorium, munitions embargo, Anti-Lynching, Reorganization, the $1,500,000,000 relief fund for 1938, AAA II conference report, Wages-&-Hours...
...Chaco dispute smoldered. Although in 1894 a straight line was arbitrarily drawn to indicate the two borders, the controversy continued and in 1932 it burst into a declared war. No less than 18 attempts at arbitration of the dispute failed. The League of Nations once imposed an arms embargo, the U. S. followed suit. Finally the Pan-American Conference of 1934 at Montevideo took up the question, arranged a truce a year later, then began its long, drawn-out negotiations...