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The first impact of war on the United States halted dead in its tracks the movement which the imistration had sponsored for the maintenance of the rule of law in international affairs, for the sanctity of treaties, and the settlement of disputes by arbitration and not by the use of force. Ever since the signature of the Kellogg Pact, first Mr. Stimson and then Mr. Hull had steadily adhered to this policy. Both these statesmen had rejected the view that a powerful and self-respecting nation could stand idly by while international standards were flouted and both had insisted that the moral weight of the United States at the very least should be used against nations guilty of aggression.
This attitude had been intensified during the months between Munich and the German invasion of Poland. Administration spokesmen had condemned without equivocation Germany's action in carrying out repressive measures against the Jews, in imposing restructive trade and financial barriers, and above all in destroying Czechoslovakia and annexing Memel. The German action in destroying the independent existence of the Czech nation was met by a refusal to recognize the conquest, by the continued acceptance of the Czech Minister as the spokesmen of the vanished country and by an official statement in which the phrase "temporary extinguishment" was employed. Other actions taken by the United States Administration to show its disgust at German tactics were the recall of its Berlin Ambassador and the imposition of every trade penalty permissible under the law against German goods. No government could have made it more clear that the Nazi regime was considered to have broken the accepted canons of international behaviour.
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