Talk:Neutrality Acts
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Maybe someone can find some interest about this text in French: http://www.histoforum.org/histoforums/5/aff.php?nummsg=3906
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[edit] Bricker Amendment
For some time I have been working on revisions to the Bricker Amendment article. I finally posted it and have a PR at Wikipedia:Peer review/Bricker Amendment/archive1. I'd welcome comments. I know all those references may seem extravagant, but I'm hoping to get it as an FA and those voters want lots of footnotes. PedanticallySpeaking 16:25, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] invocation?
Could someone tell me when, if ever, were these acts first invoked against Germany?
Thank you very much Neutrality act 04:30, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Something Missing?
The article refers to the "loopholes in the 1935 act". But there's no reference to a 1935 act. MrG 4.225.208.30 22:16, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] What about the 1935 act?
This article doesn't even mention the Neutrality Act of 1935. It only mentions 1936, 1937, 1939. Someone should add any info they know about the 1935 act to the article. Noneforall (talk) 01:37, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Politics?
The article should describe the politics of the matter. Did the Republicans or the Democrats generally favor these acts? Did Roosevelt sign them willingly or grudgingly? AxelBoldt (talk) 02:47, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Was Roosevelt free to ignore the Neutrality acts?
Our article states:
- In each case, the acts provided for the president to invoke them by finding that a state of war existed in a particular instance. This provided a loophole that President Franklin D. Roosevelt carefully exploited to ensure that US allies overseas were not unduly penalized by the acts.
In the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Article "international relations", subsection "The return of U.S. isolationism" I read
- The effect of these acts, however, was to preclude American aid to Abyssinia, Spain, and China, and thus hurt the victims of aggression more than the aggressors.
Further our articles states:
- When Japan invaded China in July 1937, starting the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945), President Roosevelt chose not to invoke the Neutrality Acts by declining to identify the fighting as a state of war. In so doing, he ensured that China's efforts to defend itself would not be hindered by the legislation.
I read in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Article "international relations", subsection "Japan's aggression in China":
- But Roosevelt was prevented by the Neutrality acts from aiding China even after the sinking of U.S. and British gunboats on the Yangtze.
While I don't know anything about the topic, it appears to me that our coverage substantially disagrees with that of EB. AxelBoldt (talk) 03:19, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
