Editing Neutrality Acts of the 1930s (section)

==Neutrality Act of 1935==
Roosevelt's State Department had lobbied for embargo provisions that would allow the president to impose sanctions selectively.{{citation needed|date=August 2020}} This was rejected by Congress.{{citation needed|date=August 2020}} The 1935 act, passed by Congress on August 31, 1935,<ref>{{cite web |title=Milestones: 1921–1936{{snd}}Office of the Historian |url=https://history.state.gov/milestones/1921-1936/neutrality-acts#:~:text=On%20August%2031%2C%201935%2C%20Congress,apply%20for%20an%20export%20license. |website=history.state.gov |access-date=29 August 2020}}</ref><ref>Public Resolution 67, 74th Congress, {{USStat|49|1081}} of August 31, 1935</ref> imposed a general embargo on trading in arms and war materials with all parties in a war.<ref name="isbn=9780198784623">{{cite book|author1=Frauke Lachenmann|author2=Rüdiger Wolfrum|title=The Law of Armed Conflict and the Use of Force: The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=boWuDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA176|year=2017|publisher=Oxford UP|page=176|isbn=9780198784623}}</ref> It also declared that American citizens traveling on warring ships traveled at their own risk. The act was set to expire after six months. When Congress passed the Neutrality Act of 1935, the State Department established an office to enforce the provisions of the Act. The Office of Arms and Munitions Control, renamed the Division of Controls in 1939 when the office was expanded, initially consisted of [[Joseph C. Green]] and [[Charles W. Yost]].{{citation needed|date=August 2020}}

Roosevelt invoked the act after [[Second Italo-Abyssinian War|Italy's invasion of Ethiopia]] in October 1935, preventing all arms and ammunition shipments to Italy and Ethiopia. He also declared a "moral embargo" against the belligerents, covering trade not falling under the Neutrality Act.<ref name="en">{{cite web|url=http://www.americanforeignrelations.com/E-N/Embargoes-and-Sanctions.html|title=Embargoes and Sanctions|last=Combs|first=Jerald A.|year=2002|website=Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy}}</ref>