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The “Neutrality Act of 1939”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2017

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Editorial Comment
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1940

References

1 Public Resolution No. 54, 76th Congress [H. J. Res. 306] approved Nov. 4, 1939, 12:04 p.m. Printed in Supplement to this Journal, p. 44.

2 The constitutionality of this provision has been questioned.

3 Cf. Department of State Bulletin, Nov. 18, 1939, Vol. I, p. 551 ff.

4 Especially Canada and Mexico, but, according to Sec. 16, including also Panama.

5 See Department of State Bulletin, Nov. 18, 1939, Vol. I, p. 553; Supplement to this Journal, p. 63.

6 See Department of State Bulletin, Dec. 9, 1939, Vol. I, p. 679.

7 Cf. Draft Convention on Rights and Duties of Neutral States in Naval and Aerial War, Art. 20 and Comment, this Journal, Supplement, Vol. 33 (1939), p. 353.

8 Department of State Bulletin, Nov. 4, 1939, Vol. I, p. 456; Supplement to this Journal, p. 56.

9 Ibid., Oct. 7, 1939, Vol. I, p. 328; Supplement to this Journal, p. 9.

10 See the Draft Convention cited supra, note 6, Art. 28 and Comment, p. 435, at 446.

11 See Third Annual Report of the National Munitions Control Board, For the Year Ended November 30, 1938 (76th Cong., 1st Sess., H. Doc. No. 92), pp. 79-80, and New York Times, Dec. 3, 1939.