Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...record at the request of FCC's Chairman James Lawrence Fly. It showed that on both NBC networks, from Jan. 1 through Oct. 31, 1) interventionists had 68 programs, 77 speakers, 25 hours, 14 minutes; isolationists, 72 programs, 76 speakers, 25 hours, 2 minutes; 2) the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies and the Fight for Freedom Committee together had 14 programs; America First had 14; 3) the average number of network stations carrying previous America First programs was 70, eight above the number Senator Wheeler turned up his nose at last week...
Temptations. Listed in the Congressional Directory, correspondents are invited to cocktails and dinners by ambassadors, senators, receive handsome gifts at Christmas, are asked for advice on momentous issues by important people. The best of them, after an initial period of giddiness, learn to defend themselves against such social lures. But a worse temptation, thinks Correspondent Clark, is the temptation for a correspondent to become first over-dignified, then over-deferential, finally timid, with a "growing inclination to accept statements at their face value, to permit invidious remarks to go unchallenged...
President Roosevelt wrote: "Every schoolchild knows what our foreign policy is. It is to defend the honor, the freedom, the rights, the interests and the well-being of the American people. . . . The real end, the inescapable end, is the destruction of the Hitler menace. . . ." These two spokesmen, representing two different aspects of the changing U.S. mind, were completely at cross purposes...
Last week no interventionist Congressman, debating repeal of the Neutrality Act, could believe that Congress would vote for war. But if the U.S. was fighting to defend her honor, as President Roosevelt said, if every schoolchild knew it, if the shooting had started, why could not such a vote be taken? Somewhere between the hard common-sense drama of General Wood and the idealistic quandary of President Roosevelt, most U.S. emotion and attention was centered. General Wood's blunt words did not leave enough room for U.S. reactions to such Nazi blows as the killing of hostages, the speed...
...America First Committee has concentrated on its own 25 per cent, using every method, fair and foul, to make them as emotional and intransigent a minority as this country has ever seen, while its interventionist counterparts, the Committee to Defend America, and the Fight For Freedom Committee, have spent the greater part of their energies in swinging their already convinced quarter of the population further and further towards war. There is no reason to believe that America First will abandon its dignifying tactics. If this country is to be saved from civil strife, the interventionists will have to pay more...