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...America First spirit," said Senator Gerald Nye to Carlson, "is much stronger now. But . . . you can ruin a good thing by coming out with it at the wrong time." When the time comes, explained the " 'dean' of American intellectual fascism," suave Lawrence Dennis, "such slogans as 'America for the Americans,' 'White Supremacy,' . . . 'Europe for the Europeans' . . . will become popular. Reactionary feeling will become rampant, followed closely by antiSemitism. . . . Declare yourself for the war now [and] after you say this begin to explain that we're fighting for Communism...
...McKnight, a Mormon who always wore long flannel underwear in hot weather and had trouble with his spelling: "Oh, how I would love to strike hands with such nobelmen as Father Coughlin, Jearald Winrod, William Dudley Pelley .. . not to say Wheeler, Lindbergh the incomparable, Senator Nye and Walsh, and others too numerous to mention here. Oh, what I would give to be numbered with them, what an honor, what a rare prevelidge...
...Fish has no brains"; 2) Reynolds has "no brains"; 3) Gerald L. K. Smith "is a good fellow, he listens to me"; 4) Nye is "the best of them all in Washington"; 5) "Wheeler is a good fellow, but he can't stand up to Nye"; 6) "Taft is coming along, but he is still old-fashioned"; 7) "Surrounded by a circle of advisers of the nationalist type, Lindbergh would make an excellent nominal leader"; 8) Colonel McCormick-"Dumb. No brains...
...Germany against the U.S. in World War II was the torpedoing of the freighter Robin Moor, six months before Pearl Harbor. The sinking brought a burning rebuke from Franklin Roosevelt, touched off new verbal skyrockets in the already explosive isolationist-interventionist debate. North Dakota's Senator Nye "guessed" that the British had sunk her-then hastily retracted. For obvious reasons, Germany kept...
...country is becoming a current which might easily become a tidal wave. . . . When a tide sets in in American politics, it is likely to go too far. . . . Next autumn or next year, the editor of the Gazette may be standing shoulder to shoulder with Senators Burt Wheeler and Gerald Nye, Colonel McCormick of the Chicago Tribune, and Senator Curly Brooks, jamming on the brakes and grinding the gears to slow down the millennium...