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...time the men of '42 were sophomores and war had broken out in Europe, a number of campus organizations opposing American intervention were at their height. The sophomores could join these organizations--or the smaller interventionist groups (in 1939)--but, for the most part, they did not lead them. It was the juniors who had formed the groups, who took the brunt of the arguing and the organizing, who brought Mike Quill of the Transport Workers Union to speak (as the Harvard Student Union, an anti-interventionist group, did in early 1940), or who decided Quill leaned...
Members of the Class of '42 did, in in fact, play important roles for a time in such anti-interventionist organizations as the American Independence League (Peabody for example) -- and in such oppositelyminded groups as the Student Defense League (Thomas Winship, for example). It was not they that faltered; it was the organization and the moment...
...Lindbergh against U.S. entry into World War II that he raised the specter of an interventionist conspiracy composed of "the British, the Jews and the Roosevelt Administration," adding remarks about Jewish influence in communications and Government. Naturally, such talk got him into deeper trouble. TWA stopped billing itself as "the Lindbergh Line." President Franklin Roosevelt compared him to a "copperhead." Lindbergh resigned from the Army Air Corps Reserve. His attitude may have been a kind of proud echo. Twenty-four years before, his own Congressman father had denounced World War I with equal vigor (on the ground that...
...Certain Inconsistency. In his current capacity as public advocate of the Administration's foreign policies, McGeorge Bundy has in his favor the fact that, as a student in pre-World War II days, he was exposed to-and agreed with-the strongly interventionist views of most of his college professors, who insisted that the U.S. had a duty to go to war against Nazism and Fascism. This puts him in an ideal position to point out the inconsistency of the professors' present isolationist position. In an essay published in 1940, when he was all of 21 and fresh...
...interventionist sentiment was widespread at Harvard. One poll found 95 per cent of students against immediate U.S. entry into the war, and 78 per cent against intervention even in the event of the defeat of England and France...