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FIGHTING YEARS - Oswald Garrison Villard-Harcourt, Brace...
...15th year on the air; and 2) it sought public opinion on whether the Neutrality Act should be changed to permit shipments of arms to nations which have been attacked. To take the affirmative on last Sunday's question, Kennedy picked in-&-out Liberal Oswald Garrison Villard, was surprised to find Villard an out-&-out neutrality man. Keeping Villard to say the nays, he then got Nation Correspondent Louis Fischer for the affirmative...
Said Fischer: "The Neutrality Act ... is wrong in principle. We sell airplanes to France . . . because we want her to be stronger if attacked by a Fascist aggressor, but we refuse airplanes to Democratic Spain, which has already been attacked by two Fascist aggressors." Said Villard: "The purpose of this Act is to prevent our being drawn into war. . . . America must stay at peace. Who are we to set ourselves up to judge which side is right and which side is wrong...
...opinion that justice was being done in Moscow were exclusively Communist papers of the Stalin faction. Very much alone under the klieg lights, as Stalin's cameras looked them in the eye, the 21 did not know that such a typical U. S. liberal as Oswald Garrison Villard, who for years has been a friendly observer of Communism, was declaring last week in The Nation: "The Kremlin is undermining everything good the Revolution sought to accomplish. . . . Madness has taken charge of the Soviets. . . . Great states fall . . . when the masses awake to the fact that justice no longer reigns among...
...Founded nine years before as the result of a disastrous race riot in Abraham Lincoln's home town of Springfield, 111. the N. A. A. C. P. was then a smallish but idealistic organization with a masthead of big names, among them liberal Editor Oswald Garrison Villard and famed Boston Lawyer Moorfield Storey...