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...William Allen White, so-called interventionist-warmonger, chairman of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, mildly defined his aims: to aid England, but not to the extent of involving the U. S. in war, not to repeal the Johnson Act, not to convoy supplies to England. Shocked at this lukewarmth, several of his committee members immediately branded his words as a shameful retreat toward isolation. Major General John F. O'Ryan resigned from the committee. In effect, the interventionist committee seemed too isolationist...
They did not agree on how much danger the U. S. faces. Lewis W. Douglas of Mutual Life Insurance Co. gave them the interventionist view ("no compromise with oppression, and no covenant with tyranny"), was politely applauded. Sears, Roebuck's General Robert E. Wood argued isolationism, received a spontaneous ovation. As though to duck the dilemma, most speakers belabored N. A. M.'s old, familiar devils: bureaucracy, U. S. fiscal policy, restrictive labor laws. At the session on "Production Aspects of Preparedness," four of the speeches were on labor problems, the fifth on the fifth column...
...Such an organization has become necessary because, although there are other groups on the campus that whole-heartedly endorse the non-interventionist position, their stand on other issues makes it difficult for them to rally the full support of the student body around this major issue," the group stated...
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...Interventionist Cobb, unlike many U. S. interventionists, knows at first hand what war is. Born in Italy of Boston parents, he enlisted with the Canadians in World War I, was twice gassed. He is the author of Paths of Glory (TIME, June 3, 1935), a superb war novel, in which three brave French soldiers were executed for "mutiny" after a sadistic general had ordered a hopeless attack...