gellhorn's mother and the roosevelts -- who had this extraordinary habit of asking all sorts of interesting people to come and live with them at the white house for a time. they had actually invited marthacome live in the white house while she worked on her writing. but gellhorn found that eleanor really wanted her help to answer got correspondence she every day, thousands of letters every day. so she didn't last long but she remained friends with eleanor. she and hemingway actually went and showed the film for the first time to the roosevelts in the white house. in mid-1937, the most exclusive audience for a film premiere that one can think of. they hoped that this would stir at least president roosevelt, outot the american people, of the stance of neutrality against the spanish civil war, but they did not succeed. brian: and we as a country had an embargo against selling arms to the people in power at the time over there and was that ever close to being broken where we would sell out? adam: well, it was broken in a very crucial way. a series of rules having to do with neutrality the gist of which was a neutrality act that was amended. you could not sell arms to any country engaged in

gellhorn's mother and the roosevelts -- who had this extraordinary habit of asking all sorts of interesting people to come and live with them at the white house for a time. they had actually invited martha to come live in the white house while she worked on her writing. but gellhorn found that eleanor really wanted her help to answer vast correspondence she got every day, thousands of letters every day. so she didn't last long but she remained friends with eleanor. she continued to write her letters from spain when she and hemingway were there and when they returned. she and hemingway actually went and showed the film for the first time to the roosevelts in the white house. in mid-1937, the most exclusive audience for a film premiere that one can think of. they hoped that this would stir at least president roosevelt, if not the american people, out of the stance of neutrality against the spanish civil war, but they did not succeed. brian: and we as a country had an embargo against selling arms to the people in power at the time over there and was that ever close to being broken where we would sell out? adam: well, it was broken in a very crucial way. a series of rules having to do with

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