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This figure indicates a marked rise in interventionist sentiment since last year, according to the Yale News, which conducted the poll. 21 percent of the 2,692 men who voted favored "full unrestricted military and naval participation in the war," surpassing the 6 percent who held the same view last February...
...smugly on your interventionist porch and look down on your neighbor's lush America First garden, which, you exultingly perceive, is filled with all manner of obnoxious weeds. Surely you know enough about horticulture to realize that weeds grow rankest where the soil is most fertile. Every good gardener, and your neighbor is one, eventually gets rid of his weeds, often to the chagrin of his early-season critics...
...survey made for the interventionist Continental Congress for Freedom held in Washington last month, 59 Nebraska editors and publishers reported that their communities were now overwhelmingly in favor of the Administration's foreign policy, substantially in favor of Neutrality Act repeal. Said one editor: "The so-called 'Isolationist Midwest' exists only in the minds of Congressmen who have failed to keep abreast of a great surge of public opinion during recent months...
Those editors who were too lightheartedly interventionist have apparently begun to think twice. Six weeks ago interventionist sentiment in the press (measured by James S. Twohey Associates) reached an all-time high of 84%. Then war began to look imminent. The Greer was shot at, the Kearny was hit by a torpedo, U.S. destroyers were reported hunting U-boats and dropping depth charges. In five weeks' interventionist sentiment dropped...
Hitherto press sentiment for intervention has always risen after a speech by President Roosevelt. Not so last week. The President spoke ("The shooting has started") and the destroyer Reuben James was also sunk. Interventionist sentiment in the press just held even at 64%. The 20% drop in interventionist sentiment was accompanied by a rise in isolationist sentiment from...