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...that America is fully behind the Empire war machine. One explanation for this, Greene said, was that the London papers always print only the most optimistic news from across the sea. Statements by Hull and Knex are given feature headlines, while the opinions of such isolationists as Wheeler and Lindbergh are not mentioned. Greene said that when he arrived here he was surprised at the true split in attitude...
France, where U. S. Ambassador Admiral Leahy, declared that he believed Britain would win, refused to allow his statement to be printed in the French press, although Colonel Lindbergh's statement that he hoped for a stalemate peace was printed at length. The French have understood who the U. S. sometimes plays a forceful aggressive part in world affairs, sometimes withdraw into apathy and indifference; but they too were alive to the force whcih...
Outside of Lindbergh isolationists, who saw the country careening into war, and out-&-out left-wing factions like the American Peace Mobilization group, which demonstrated noisily on the Capitol steps last week, opposition formed along partisan lines. Republicans, more distrustful of the man than of his position, were reluctant to grant Franklin Roosevelt another tittle of power. Substitute proposals were belatedly discussed. Most generally favored: a $2,000,000,000 credit to Britain which she could use on her own responsibility to purchase supplies. Proponents of the bill pointed out that such a device might spoil the coordination between...
Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee filed Cabinet Members Stimson, Hull, Morgenthau, Knox, who had all spoken before the House committee two weeks before. To the Navy's Knox, Lindbergh's statement that a peace might be negotiated without a victory on either side was "wild fancy." "Peace without victory is possible only when . . . the belligerents feel that the peace terms will be faithfully carried out by all parties." Only hope for U. S. peace, said Knox, was the defeat of Germany. Otherwise, the U. S. would eventually have to fight for control of the seas. By means...
...Bernarr Macfadden's Graphic in New York, he was bounced out of interviews, elegantly by Winston Churchill (when he discovered Scott did not represent the London Graphic}, grimly by Gangsters Irving Bitz and Salvatore Spitale (who did not want to talk about underworld angles of the Lindbergh kidnapping). Last week Ted Scott bounced again - this time out of the Republic of Panama on a deportation order...