Word: hitlers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Angeles was not yet mad enough at Hitler to want to fight him abroad, but anger was rising. The big, sprawling metropolis ("seven suburbs in search of a city") seemed not really concerned about the war threat. Europe is a long way from Los Angeles...
...Hitler and Mussolini jes' need a good whuppin' and it looks like Uncle Sam's gonna have...
Minneapolis was isolationist: let Britain stop Hitler. President Roosevelt's interventionist policy was appraised as largely bluff, and approved as such...
Iowa felt strongly that European war was inevitable and blamed Hitler more bitterly than 1941's Kaiser. Iowa would send the Democracies supplies and munitions...
Detroit editors listened intently to some motor and oil bigwigs who said there would be no European war, and who welcomed Hitler's firming grip on Central Europe because, they said, it would bring order out of chaos there. Exciting to Detroit was the thought that the new Dodge truck plant, world's largest, could be transformed overnight to produce shells, cannon or airplanes. Detroit editors differed with their tycoons: they believed European war inescapable, U. S. participation almost obligatory. Men-in-the-street did not yet take the situation personally, but newsstand sales were far above normal...