Word: lindberghism
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When the reaction comes (and it is later than you think) the figures of those few lonely, fearless men such as Lindbergh will tower as far above those of their slimy defamers as a giant sequoia towers above the bedraggled weeds at its base...
...become pretty plain that snobbery was not the word. The Government likewise puzzled over "The Strangers," particularly, it seemed, over the Commentator-Herald master mailing list, now said to comprise 500,000 names. Most of its names were supposedly supplied by isolationist Congressmen Wheeler, Nye, Fish, by Lindbergh and Father Coughlin, by America First and "other organizations." After big isolationist meetings the speakers are reported to have baled up tens of thousands of fan letters and sent them along to Scribner's Commentator and The Herald. There is nothing suspicious in having a mailing list-many businesses have them...
...Lindbergh...
Toughs from the slums getting ready to fight the collegeboys; middlewesterners talking about secession from "that British colony in the East"; Lindbergh haranguing the crowds about "new leadership"; everywhere the lines are being drawn more sharply, and the gap between isolationist and interventionist is steadily and alarmingly widening. Max Lerner, who is usually pretty well up on those things, has estimated that 25 per cent of the people are rabid interventionists, 25 per cent are steadfast isolationists, and 50 per cent are in the middle, but following the main trends of the Roosevelt foreign policy...
...have just read your lead article ... on Isolationist Wood. Here you have done as reprehensible a thing in your way as Lindbergh did in his. Lindbergh used anti-Jewish prejudice to try to keep us out of war; you are employing anti-Jewish prejudice as a subtle means to take us into war-by implying that the way to right Lindbergh's wrong is to follow the course opposite...