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The Case for Sanctions
Swing, Raymond Gram | December 4, 1935 issue

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Neutrality requires equal treatment of two belligerents without regard to the nature and origin of their conflict. If a country is guilty of unprovoked aggression, the policy of neutrality proclaims an indifference which is purely rhetorical. There can be no indifference, not only because unprovoked aggression is illegal, but because it encourages subsequent aggressions if no collective effort successfully punishes it, and because, fearing its repetition, other countries will increase their armaments. Economic sanctions cannot work if they are not universal or neatly so. The outlawry of wars of aggression may be impossible without American cooperation in economic coercion.

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NEUTRALITY; ECONOMIC sanctions; WAR; INTERNATIONAL relations; POLITICAL doctrines; SECURITY, International
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