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House members were still fresh from their month's visit home, whence many a mugwump had crossed over into the interventionist camp, and even fresher from the heaviest victory for any Roosevelt World War II policy move, the crashing 328-67 vote last week for passage of the $5,985,000,000 new Lend-Lease funds. If the House whooped through the Armed-Ships bill, the Senate could not fail to be impressed. This was the strategists...
...might get his propaganda into the Congressional Record and sent around the country under Congressional frank. He had failed to tell that he had provided material for a book published under the authorship of Illinois Congressman Stephen A. Day, or that he had aided and financed the "non-interventionist" Islands-for-War-Debts-Committee. For these and other oversights, last week Viereck was indicted on five counts, released on $15,000 bail. He pleaded not guilty...
...Twohey figures tell the story of typical editorial reactions. The events which sent interventionist sentiment up, sent isolationist sentiment down and vice versa. Whenever the President took a firm stand or a firm step, sentiment for intervention and more aid to Britain rose sharply. Whenever there was talk of the closeness of war or of other unpleasant things such as low Army morale, isolationist sentiment rose...
...Interventionist sentiment reached a record high (84%) in September after the Navy was ordered to shoot. The important questions now are 1) whether debate over the dangers of arming merchant ships and modifying the Neutrality Act will set back interventionist sentiment as debate over the Lend-Lease bill did last February; 2) whether news from Russia will aggravate or offset the decline...
...fold. All three groups have platforms which exactly parallel that of the HLU, so that the national program that will be decided upon next December 27 at the University of Michigan is easily predictable. It will be prolabor but anti-defense-strike, strongly outspoken for domestic democracy, but definitely interventionist and bitterly anti-Hitler. Non-interventionist liberals will not be excluded, however, for the Merger aims to be primarily a liberal pressure group, with more far-reaching aims than winning...