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To: JohnM who wrote (74950)	2/17/2003 6:38:05 PM
From: aladin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Greetings back :-) McCarthyism: Actually some of Scott's articles keeps bringing it up. On the Poll's I will find them later tonight. I was reading Charles Linbergh's diaries from the pre-War era and he constantly referenced public opinion polls. Perhaps a character trait of a pacifist? He was at great odds with FDR on the war and worked relentlessly on keeping the US out of another European conflict (his words). His later diary entries covering the WW2 period actually put me off so much I stopped reading. He equated several isolated incidents of Marine brutality (his opinion) during battle with the Japanese with the Nazi death camps. John

To: JohnM who wrote (74950)	2/17/2003 9:01:50 PM
From: aladin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

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 ... 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. ... 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.