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...Chicago, harassed Committee heads gathered with Charles Lindbergh, who fortnight before had blurted the Jewish issue into their campaign. They had already delayed so long taking a stand on his remarks about Jewish influence as a danger to the U.S. that nothing short of drastic action would mean anything. And drastic action would have meant a public repudiation of Lindbergh, their star performer. They decided to do nothing drastic. Instead, they issued an unsigned statement...
...Colonel Lindbergh and his fellow members of the America First Committee are not antiSemitic. We deplore the injection of the race issue into the discussion of war or peace. It is the interventionists who have done this...
...April Charles Lindbergh joined the crusade. He wrote his own speeches, said what he believed, submitted to no pre-speech censorship. He became America First's idol and white knight. Along with Mrs. Lindbergh, he became an intimate of Bob Wood and a frequent guest at the Woods' comfortable lakeside house. Often the General and the Colonel, plain men both, sat up talking until midnight, a late hour for Bob Wood, who habitually leaves parties...
...When Lindbergh made his Des Moines speech charging that the British, the Administration and Jews were pushing the U.S. towards war, America Firsters in Chicago did not immediately realize what havoc his words were to unleash. Neither did Lindbergh. He had believed that the President, warming up for his declaration on freedom of the seas, was about to make a speech which might mean war, and he was determined to get in one last word before it was too late to talk...
There was no denying that, before Lindbergh spoke, anti-Semitism was one of the weeds that had already sprung up in America First's lush garden. But until Lindbergh publicly described the Jews as a danger to the U.S., anti-Semitism had not burst into full flower. General Wood and his associates were astonished at the country's reaction to Lindbergh's attack...