Comment on the embargo., 1938 February 11 March 20 April 21 May 02 06 07

2 copies. New York Sun, Feb. 11: Embargo aids strong against the weak; New York Times, Mar. 20: Folly that U.S. should handicap those nations which share faith in the democratic system; New York Herald Tribune, April 21: Effect of Neutrality Act, in regard to Spain, is unneutrally to assist Franco; Chicago Daily News, May 2: When U.S. put embargo on, trying to be neutral, she helped Franco blockade the Loyalists, aided aggressor against his victim; Dorothy Thompson, in New York Herald Tribune, May 6, Editorial: Neutrality Act has aligned U.S. with British non-intervention policy; U.S. should now recover freedom of action by abandoning embargoes; Walter Lippmann, in New York Herald Tribune, May 7: Embargo unsound, unworkable, dangerous.