Word: embargoing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Statesman Stimson had every good reason to want to placate President Vargas by compliments or anything else. U. S.-Brazilian relations were last week described as "rapidly approaching the breaking point." The reason, of course, was the Arms Embargo President Hoover, on the State Department's recommendation, had laid down against the Brazilian revolutionaries only two days before they ousted President Washington Luis and seized the Rio government (TIME, Oct. 13 et seq.~). The complimentary form of U. S. recognition was designed especially to make amends for this ill-advised action, to win back lost U. S. favor and prestige...
...Luis's elected successor, in Washington last June, had every reason to want and expect him to take office this month. On the strength of Secretary Washington's reports and the direct request of the Brazilian Ambassador in Washington, President Hoover last week clapped down an arms embargo against the revolutionists. Penalty for its violation: $10,000 fine, two years in gaol...
...State Department the rebels were described as little better than bandits. Munitions and arms including a dozen airplanes were shipped to the support of the Brazilian federals. Statesman Stimson explained that, though this was the first time the U. S. had applied an embargo to a South American revolution, it was no precedent because the same method had been used before under international law to squelch rebellions in Mexico, Central America, China...
Back to Rio from Paris last week hurried Ambassador Morgan. Two days after his arrival, less than 48 hours after the Washington embargo, the Washington Luis government fell with a resounding thump which jarred official nerves in Washington (see p. 24). But it was not too late for Ambassador Morgan to salvage some U. S. goodwill (U. S. trade with Brazil: $316,000,000 per year). He cabled Statesman Stimson...
...jawed men who said they were ex-U. S. Marines were turned away by the Brazilian Consulate General. But another species of U. S. help was welcome. Quiet dickering for bombing planes began. During the week it was frequently reported that President Hoover had no intention of laying an embargo on exports of such weapons to Brazil...