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...Washington Columnist Raymond Clapper, a careful reporter with good sources, described the expected manifesto as "directed against the Roosevelt-Churchill Atlantic Charter. . . . [The U.S.] would be described as remote from, and completely alien to, the European problem. Obviously this would be aimed at providing ammunition for non-interventionist and isolationist sentiment...
First came a report from French Lick that Indiana Republicans had issued a manifesto, read Wendell Willkie out of the party for his support of the Administration's foreign policy. The report was false, but gave a fair indication of the feelings of many a Republican politico...
...test of Republican sentiment, the list of signers to Willkie's manifesto was inconclusive. As a move in the struggle to shift Republican policy away from Isolationism, it promised to be historic. Said Pundit Arthur Krock: "[Willkie] had been marching so long and obediently in the President's foreign policy column . . . that those at the head no longer kept an eye on him. . . . What, therefore, was the surprise and embarrassment of the Generalissimo and his staff when the follower dashed in front of the leader with a following of his own. . . . Mr. Willkie struck at the President...
Herbert Hoover turned pollster last week. Irked because 176 facultymen at his alma mater, Stanford University, had signed a manifesto demanding a "more dynamic defense" against totalitarianism, Mr. Hoover personally sent a questionnaire to Stanford's 800 teachers. To Mr. Hoover, "more dynamic defense" meant "military action." His conclusion, released to the interventionist Stanford Daily (see above) : 60% of the faculty disagreed with the signers of the manifesto...
Sample Hoover question: "Do you think we should carry munitions to England in American-flag ships ?" Of the faculty in general, 47% voted Yes; of the manifesto signers, 73%. Other questions: Should the U.S. send an army to the European continent? Fight Japan if she refused to get out of China? The 176 signers and non-signers alike voted overwhelmingly...