Date of Award

1937

Degree Type

Bachelors Essay

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts (BA)

Department

History

First Advisor

Herbert W. Rice

Second Advisor

William J. Grace

Abstract

The depression of 1929, the refusal of the nations to pay their war debts, and the revelations of the Nye investi­gating committee have brought most Americans to a thumping realization that war. its causes and cures, is more than a matter of kahki shirts, bursting bombs, and eloquent catch­ phrases. In fact, so patent is this realisation that no one but a most intrepid citizen or a junior high school civics teacher would dare to utter the words "To make the world sate for democracy" with anything but a sneer. If, as Charles Beard says, "In the course of forty or fifty years some of the lessons brought to light in the story of the ma»ch along the 'road to war' may sink into the minds of even Respectable Citizens", it is nevertheless true that "even Respectable Citizens" have gloated in thoughts of midnight lynchings of munition makers and torture racks for international bankers.

The purpose of this thesis is to consider the outgrowth of the realization by the American people that neutrality is more than a matter of good intentions the Neutrality Legislation of February, 1936. An attempt has been made to extract some of the circumstances of the War of 1812 and the World War which bear upon the present neutrality legislation. Much of the material is, of course, controversial.

Comments

A thesis submitted to The Faculty of the Liberal Arts College of Marquette University in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Degree of Bachelor of Philosophy. Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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