Word: lindberghism
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...night two official members of President Roosevelt's Cabinet had publicly put the U.S. in the war. A fair inference was that they had spoken for him and his Administration. They had spoken only 24 hours after Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh had roused a big Manhattan rally of the America First Committee by declaring that the great, silent majority of the U.S. people, "who have no newspaper, or newsreel, or radio station at their command," were opposed to U.S. participation...
...Colonel Lindbergh was right, the President was leading the U.S. into a war it did not want...
Since the outbreak of the war, Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh has consistently spoken as one of the foremost advocates of American isolation. Such a position, to say the least, must be open to question, in view of the fact that the average American has shown extreme concern for the crisis of a fellow-democracy. Some, indeed, have expressed their concern in a denunciation of Colonel Lindbergh's views as extremist, if not completely in sympathy with the American proto-fascist ideology. Perhaps many feel that Lindbergh's resignation from the Army Air Corps constitutes good riddance plain and simple. Certainly...
...America First rally in Chicago, mention of Churchill drew boos. When Colonel Lindbergh said that England was in a desperate situation, her shipping losses serious, "her cities devastated by bombs," he was stopped-and embarrassed-by applause...
...Place to Sit Down. Chicago is considered by the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies to be the second most isolationist spot in the U.S. (Milwaukee is first). Yet last week Colonel Lindbergh, most popular and highly respected U.S. isolationist, drew 10,000 at the Chicago Arena, while General Sikorski, Polish Premier in exile, drew 75,000 to Soldier Field with a pro-Allied plea...