Word: embargoing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
Amid such sentiments, subject to such pressure, Franklin Roosevelt who never loved the strict provisions of the Neutrality Act stood by it. He knew that at such a late hour lifting the embargo would involve the U. S. in diplomatic trouble and threaten U. S. peace far more effectively than it could help Loyalist Spain. This put the President in an unusual spot for him: on the unpopular side of a question. But he did not refer to these facts when he replied, through the press, to the clamoring friends of Loyalist Spain. He referred all pleaders to the State...
Although agreeing with you when you urge "a constructive attitude toward American cooperation in the world," I must take exception to certain parts of the Friday editorial: those portions which refer to the Harvard petition to lift the Embargo...
...timed? No; the petition comes at a time when the President is undoubtedly considering very seriously the lifting of the embargo. Following so closely upon ex-Secretary Stimson's letter, the latest Gallup Poll, and the flood of telegrams which the fall of Barcelona evoked, this petition from his own University cannot fail to make an impression upon Mr. Roosevelt...