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These tempered words would not have greatly interested Washington had not the story leaked out of what had taken place in the President's office ten days earlier. Nine Representatives had marched in and resolutely told him that the discretion he desired, to declare an arms embargo against either of two warring nations was, in effect, the power to drag the U. S. into war, a power no prudent President would want and no rash President should have. Angered by such unaccustomed opposition, Franklin Roosevelt snapped that he could if he would put the U.S. into...
...Senate resolution provided that on the outbreak of a war (which was left undefined) the President should at once proclaim its existence, forbid shipment of "arms, ammunition & implements of war" (also undefined) to each & every belligerent. To enforce that embargo U. S. munitioneers were to be licensed by a National Munitions Control Board, U. S. ships forbidden to carry munitions direct to belligerent ports, or to neutral ports for transshipment. At his discretion the President could also forbid U. S. citizens to travel on belligerent ships except at their own risk. The Senate, in effect, was issuing a "must" order...
Chairman McReynolds left the White House considerably sobered. In his pocket he carried President Roosevelt's surrender to the nation's war scare. Reluctantly the President had written a memorandum accepting a mandatory, all-round arms embargo provided it should be effective only until...
Chairman McReynolds took with him also a prime trading point to force the Senate peacemen to accept the President's compromise. Ardently did he and a majority of the House desire to lay down an absolute embargo on loans & credits to warring nations. Except for the Nye-Clark bloc, the Senate was flatly opposed to such action. Therefore, threatened Chairman McReynolds, let the Senate peacemen accept the President's compromise or he would write a loans & credits embargo into their resolution, thus killing off neutrality legislation at this session...
...returned across the Channel to bathe in and imbibe the waters of Aix. It was announced that His Majesty's Government, which has been aiding Italy by refusing to sell arms either to Italy, which has plenty, or to Ethiopia, which is short, would probably not lift this embargo at least until after the League Council meets on Sept. 4. After all the dominion representatives in London had been discreetly contacted, Premier Forbes of New Zealand excitedly declared, 11,682 miles away in Wellington: "If Great Britain is involved in war New Zealand will be also...