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...Prolonged Study." Most apathetic spot in the country was the territory served by isolationist Chicago Tribune, where the Tribune's editorials and Charles Augustus Lindbergh's shrill "they can't touch us" had all but drowned out OCD's weak little toot. Last week the Midwest had just begun to yawn and stretch. In Wisconsin it was announced that plans for civilian defense were going to be given "prolonged study." St. Louis declared that it would get around this week to enrolling some 50,000 volunteers which it figured it might need...
Laura Ingalls, pint-sized, trophy-winning aviatrix, was jailed by the FBI in Washington as an alleged propaganda agent for the Nazi Government. Speaker at many an America First gathering, peace-pamphlet "bomber" of Washington in 1939, Isolationist Laura was charged with having been on the Nazi payroll (and failing to register as an agent) since Aug. 1. She took up flying in 1928, began setting records in aerobatics in 1930. She was the first woman pilot to fly east-west nonstop coast to coast, bagged a Harmon Trophy in 1935 "I was a free agent and took no orders...
Another factor in the dissolution was lack of College support. Last year the Progressive and its parent body were among the leaders of the large isolationist group, but the student body this year has been overwhelmingly opposed to strict isolationism...
Lewis may have thought that the isolationist G.O.P. majority was his friend, but the Republicans voted 123-10-24 for the Smith bill...
This was the story that confronted President Roosevelt last week in Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick's violently isolationist Chicago Tribune. It purported to be a transcript of a secret document drawn up for President Roosevelt by the high command of the U.S. Army & Navy...