Word: rhodesmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Smart, young (40) Alan Valentine, a Rhodes scholar, was accused by fellow Rhodesmen of ingratitude to Britain when he began two years ago to write impassioned letters to Senators and President Roosevelt demanding that they keep the U.S. out of war. He went to Washington this year to oppose the Lend-Lease Bill. Now in favor of U.S. arming for defense, he insists that to send troops to Europe would be "pure midsummer madness...