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FDR: “It has become my duty to issue, and I am today issuing, my Proclamation making effective an embargo on the exportation…”

On the recordOctober 4, 1935
It has become my duty to issue, and I am today issuing, my Proclamation making effective an embargo on the exportation from this country to Ethiopia and Italy of arms, ammunition and implements of war.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Statement on Proclamations 2141 and 2142

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