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With only a few exceptions, the Congressmen had been shocked by the state of opinion in their districts. Interventionist districts were now red-hot; Middle-Road districts were now Interventionist; Isolationist districts were now at least Middle-of-the-Road. One Congressman after another said the same thing: "They're way ahead of me back home." Southern members who had voted for extension of the draft found themselves local heroes; Congressmen who had voted for draft extension with their fingers crossed found they had done the right thing after...
There was no calm there. This "investigating" subcommittee was no ordinary Senatorial investigating committee. No Senatorial vote authorized it. Set up by Isolationist Senator Wheeler, in his capacity as chairman of the Interstate Commerce Committee, it held hearings supposedly to determine whether an investigation should be made. Stuffed with diehard Isolationists-Clark of Idaho, Bone of Washington (absent because of illness), Tobey of New Hampshire, Brooks of Illinois-it had only one Administration supporter. He was Ernest McFarland, 6-ft. ex-judge of Florence, Ariz., who had won a surprise victory over Senator Ashurst...
Republican Isolationist Thomas E. Dewey called Lindbergh's speech "an inexcusable abuse of the right of freedom of speech." New York's Alfred E. Smith said it "strikes at the very basis of our national unity." Hearst's isolationist New York Journal-American gave much of its front page and two inside pages to statements by Catholic and Protestant leaders unanimously denouncing or deploring Lindbergh's views. "Un-American" was the word universally used. Said the New York Herald Tribune: "On Thursday night at Des Moines Mr. Charles A. Lindbergh departed from the American way. . . . Those...
...press is concerned, this charge is easily disproved. The two big newspaper-chain owners are William Randolph Hearst and Roy Wilson Howard, gentiles both. Biggest newspaper in New York is rabid Isolationist Joseph M. Patterson's Daily News. Biggest newspaper outside of New York is the Chicago Tribune, owned by Colonel Robert R. McCormick. In New York City itself, where nearly one third of all U.S. Jews live, the three morning papers are controlled by gentiles; one by Jews (the New York Times, world-famed for impartiality); and four evening papers are controlled by gentiles; one by Jews...
Long a rumor-last week an acknowledged fact-was a well-advanced project to launch a new newspaper to break the Chicago morning-paper monopoly of the bitterly isolationist, bitterly anti-Roosevelt Chicago Tribune...