JohnM,
There is so much garbage out there on the net. The current crisis tends to overwhelm any real research on the pre WW2 era :-(
Anyway found some stuff below:
John
ety.com
The pressure for convoys is rising. The Gallup Poll carries strange contradictions. More than eighty per cent of the people, it appears, are opposed to our entering the war; but seventy-one per cent are for convoys, if Britain would otherwise lose.
pbs.org
You might get sick reading that one. But this was a huge movement in the US and like todays Pacifists using ANSWERS Stalinists, AMerica First eagerly used Nazi's and pacifists to keep us out of the war.
pbs.org
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For more than two years, Lindbergh spoke for millions who opposed American intervention in another European war. In 1941, he joined the board of the America First Committee, a broad coalition that ranged from ardent pacifists to some who wished a Nazi victory.
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In June 1945, Lindbergh flew into defeated Germany, saw the damage Allied bombing had done and visited part of the Belsen concentration camp. He was led to the crematorium by a skeleton of a boy still dressed in his camp stripes. He looked down on a row of large pits filled with ashes. "Twenty-five thousand in a year and a half," the boy told him, "and from each, there is only so much." He cupped his hands together to show the measure.
But Lindbergh could see no difference between victims of Nazi extermination and soldiers who died in combat. "What the German has done to the Jew in Europe," he wrote, "we are doing to the Jap in the Pacific." He still believed he had been right about the war. |
