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The United States Neutrality Act of 1937

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2017

James Wilford Garner
James Wilford Garner*
Affiliation:
University of Illinois
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Extract

By a joint resolution passed on April 30 Congress reënacted, with modifications in some cases, and made permanent the essential provisions of the temporary resolution of August 31,1935 (as amended February 29,1936), which by its own terms expired on May 1, 1937. With the exception of the new Section 6 dealing with restrictions on the exportation and transportation of commodities other than arms, ammunition and implements of war, the duration of which by its own terms is limited to two years, the present resolution is therefore intended to lay down a permanent neutrality policy for the United States.

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Research Article
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 31 , Issue 3 , July 1937 , pp. 385 - 397
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 2012

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References

1 As to the facts, see Baker, Woodrow Wilson—Life and Letters, Neutrality 1914–1915, p. 380 ff.

2 As to the facts, see Garner, International Law in the World War, Vol. I, p. 414 ff.

3 See the interpretation in this sense of the Pact of Paris adopted by the International Law Association at Budapest in 1934,38th Eeport, p. 4 ff. And compare Lauterpacht “Neutrality and Collective Security,” Politica, November, 1936, p. 141.

4 I have discussed this aspect of the matter more at length in a note entitled “Executive Discretion in the Conduct of Foreign Relations,” this JOURNAL, Vol. 31, April, 1937, p. 289.

5 See further, as to this, Garner, International Law and the World War, Vol. II, p. 416 ff.

6 See especially Articles 9, 10, and 11.