Cash and carry clause
The cash-and-carry clause is a US law supplement before and during World War II designed to circumvent the neutrality of the United States.
history
In the pre-war period of the 1930s, influenced by the work of the Nye Committee , the US had passed a number of neutrality laws. These had already been undermined on the occasion of the Second Sino-Japanese War by Franklin D. Roosevelt , in which the United States supported China. In November 1937, the American Congress changed the neutrality laws and approved the sale of war material. However, the condition was immediate payment and transport of the cargo by non-American ships, which is why the law also became known as the Cash and Carry Act . This ensured that only the Western powers could receive supplies as Axis merchant ships could not get past the British blockade in the Atlantic. At the same time, the US Navy began monitoring shipping in the western Atlantic with its own neutrality patrol .
The law was initially limited to two years until May 1, 1939, but was then extended on September 5, 1939 and also extended to weapons and ammunition.
literature
- Brigitte Esser; Michael Venhoff: Chronicle of the Second World War . Ed .: Hanno Ballhausen. Wissenmedia Verlag, Gütersloh 2004, ISBN 3-577-14367-3 , p. 26 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
Individual evidence
- ^ Herbert H. Reginbogin: The comparison . LIT Verlag Münster, 2006, ISBN 3-8258-0703-7 , p. 69 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from July 25, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
