| Show f Inside I 11 L L I Stuff V 1 B By PAUL MALLON j WASHINGTON ASHINGTON V D Dec Dc c. c 9 The 9 ThO 9 The fancy Caney fancy fan Can cy ey way the new dealers have been skating around on one anc foot across this embargo ice lee would indicate there thero Is some- some Embargo thing wrong with withLaw withLaw withLaw Law On the ice There is Thin Ice Ico Of Official ici l I 1 legal c g C a I i advisers of the government will cOli confess Cess quite t g frankly under their unofficial breaths that an embargo against oil cil il copper steel etc would be illegal ille ille- t gal Ickes and Welles have almost admitted as much publicly I But tho the truth about it seems to be that the new dealers are re counting on the support of public pub pub- lie lic opinion to cut more snore weight than i legal ice In other words they are arc reading the favorable editorial comment com corn meat ment about their efforts to discourage age ago trade with belligerents rather than following tho the advIce of ot their lawyers laWers Therefore oil men and others had better not count too much on the letter of the law The Tho 1110 fancy skaters here may let their lawyers find an excuse for their acts later That is no not as difficult as it For instance the tho northWest north- north West jest mounted statesman Secretary huh has already managed to get around and forget torget a certain treaty Continued on pa Page Two i Column Five I Inside Stuff Continued from fram Page Pago One signed by tho the United States and Italy February 26 1871 and still sun in legal effect After all Mr Mn Hull has said about aboul the sanctity of treaties It appears not to have be boon on even disconcerting disconcert disconcert- V ing for him him- when Hull his lawyers Overlooks pointed out per per- Treaty article 6 It says No prohibition shall be Imposed on the importation or exportation of any article the produce or manufacture manufacture manu manu- facture of ot tho the United States or Italy to or r from the territories o othe of the tho United States or to or from the th-e territories of Italy which shall not equally extend to all nil oth other r nations In intelligible but undiplomatic language that means the U. U S. S and Italy agreed not to adopt prohibitions prohibitions prohibitions against their trade trado or Dr commerce commerce com com- merce merco unless extended to every one Few nonpartisan lawyers will doubt that the treaty is still sUit technically technically technically tech tech- In effect It carries a specific provision that It shall re remain remain remain re- re main In effect until on one year after one country specifically disavows it Neither Italy nor the U. U S. S has Mr J Hull has been able to get a easing conscience opinion from his lawyers la to the effect that Italy violated violated violated vio vio- vio- vio the spirit of tho the treaty by Imposing imposing imposing Im im- im- im posing traUt quotas a few years back This is probably true but if the U. U S. S considered the tho quotas a violation It should have served notice notice no no- tice Uce against Italy and given the one- one year notice of cancellation now writing the new neutrality legislation have been looking for a n. better legal excuse than that one They have to find one to make any neutrality legislation legislation legislation legisla legisla- tion really effective The new dealers seemed to be bemore bemore bemore more steamed up about the rectitude of their position on the embargo Issue than Issue than on any New ew Dealers other lately A Steamed Up few days ago an anOver anOver anOver Over Issue authority near the top flatly s sa said a i d the president and Mr l Hull were agreed that they were not going to let American trade interfere with the tho effectiveness of ot any League of Nations oil action against Italy Voluntary appeals will be made first Indirect pressure next but if It overy everything thing fails taIls the tho president he said would slap oil Into the embargo em em- bargo bl list as a 0 war material law lawor lawor lawor or no law This may be bo Inspired talk balk for tor effect but it is by no means impossible Some authorities have been lookIng lookIng look look- Ing into the history of American em em- They say tho the only ono one over Imposed was in Thomas Jeffersons Jefferson's administration and that it contributed contributed con con- to bringing on the tho War Var of 1812 Smart politicos tried to popularize popularize popularize the issue in the ensuing political political political cal campaign spelling embargo backwards calling It an policy A prominent veterans' veterans expert says aYS the wives are the ones who are pressing for the bonus more moro than the tho veterans His check indicates that most of the money will go for things that th ladles ladies want and need including dresses household equipment fur coats and automobiles automobiles automo automo- biles bUes as well as paying ot off bills The payment will probably be made mado In March although no one yet knows how A part of Prof outfit has been working lately in the tho Inspiring in inspirIng inspiring in- in surroundings of an old hotel which had the first roof root garden garden garden gar gar- den in town It was there that Kate Smith first brought the moon over the mountain Copyright 1935 for The Telegram |
