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...must refuse to be duped, as other democracies were duped, by German lies. The people who claim that the attack on Russia has changed the nature of the war are people who have opposed effective aid against aggression even before the war was "changed"-Hoover, Landon, Lindbergh...
FORTUNE'S appraisal is based on the assumption, unacceptable to isolationists, that the U.S. is already engaged in an inescapable struggle. Herbert Hoover, Alfred Landon, Burton Wheeler, John L. Lewis, Charles Lindbergh and many a lesser citizen in their several ways question or deny that assumption...
Chief speaker was ex-Tribune Foreign Correspondent Edmond Taylor (The Strategy of Terror), a shrewd expert on Nazi fifth-columning, whose subject was What Is Wrong with the Chicago Tribune? Characterizing Colonel McCormick's editorial policy as "criminal nonsense," Taylor coupled the Tribune with Wheeler and Lindbergh as "dirty fighters who are using the political equivalent of poison...
Even among last-ditch, Lindbergh isolationists, 38% believe that Hitler will attack the Americas if he wins his war in Europe. Altogether, a solid 72% of the U.S. people think that Hitler will try to conquer the world. But the U.S. is not sure where its defense should begin. A bare majority (51.6%) would use force to defend Britain. A few more (59%) would fight to hold the Philippine Islands (see p. 11). But 83% would defend some part of South America, 67.7% would defend it all. More than 98% would fight for the U.S. itself...
Your heading "War of the Dinosaurs" for your June 30 story on the Commu-Nazi war was a four-word encyclopedia of rebuke for the Anne Lindbergh Wave-of-the-Future group. I don't know when I've seen four words that said so much...