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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 30. August 1935 / Timeline August 30, 1935
Version 3.530. August 1935, September 1935
08/31/1935
USAs kongres vedtager en lov om neutralitet, hvorefter
præsidenten i tilfælde af krig kan forbyde
våbensalg til krigsførende lande.
08/30/1935
"Neutrality Act" of August 31, 1935, JOINT RESOLUTION
49 stat. 1081; 22 U.S.C. 441 note
- https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/interwar/neutralityact.htm
Providing for the prohibition of the export of arms, ammunition, and implements of war to belligerent countries; the prohibition of the transportation of arms, ammunition, and implements of war by vessels of the United States for the use of belligerent states; for the registration and licensing of persons engaged in the business of manufacturing, exporting, or importing arms, ammunition, or implements of war; and restricting travel by American citizens on belligerent ships during war.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That upon the outbreak or during the progress of war between, or among, two or more foreign states, the President shall proclaim such fact, and it shall thereafter be unlawful to export arms, ammunition, or implements of war from any place in the United States, or possessions of the United States, to any port of such belligerent states, or to any neutral port for transshipment to, or for the use of, a belligerent country.
The President, by proclamation, shall definitely enumerate the arms, ammunition, or implements of war, the export of which is prohibited by this Act.
The President may, from time to time, by proclamation, extend such embargo upon the export of arms, ammunition, or implements of war to other states as and when they may become involved in such war...
Source: U.S., Department of State, Publication 1983, Peace and War: United States Foreign Policy, 1931-1941 (Washington, D.C.: U.S., Government Printing Office, 1943, pp. 265-271
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