APPEASEMENT. America First and the rightwing Isolationists

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Joe Conason goes into detail about Ameica First (before Pat Buchanan just happened ;-) to use the same name) and how they actually did protest AFTER Pearl Harbor and were eventually proven to having been unwittingly used as cover
by German and Japanese agents. These agents used the Congressional office of one elected Republican before being exposed.




America First Committee Original Four Principles:



The United States must build an impregnable defense for America
No foreign power, nor group of powers, can successfully attack a prepared America
American democracy can be preserved only by keeping out of the European war.
"Aid short of war" weakens national defense at home and threatens to involve America in war abroad.
Proposed Activities- September 5, 1940:


To bring together all Americans, regardless of possible differences on other matters, who see eye-to-eye on these principles. (This does not include Nazists , Fascists, Communists, or members of other groups that place the interest of any other nation above those of our own country.)
To urge Americans to keep their heads amid rising hysteria of times of crisis.
To provide sane national leadership for the majority of the American people who want to keep out of the European war.
To register this opinion with the President and with Congress.



Lindbergh & the America First Committee

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Charles Lindbergh speaking at an American First Rally
"If any one of these groups--the British, the Jewish, or the administration--stops agitating for war, I believe there will be little danger of our involvement."
Charles Lindbergh- September 11, 1941

On September 11, 1941, Charles Lindbergh appeared in Des Moines, Iowa, to speak on behalf of the isolationist America First Committee. The famous aviator criticized the groups he perceived were leading America into war for acting against the country's interests. He expressed doubt that the U.S. military would achieve victory in a war against Germany, which he said had "armies stronger than our own." The Des Moines speech was met with outrage in many quarters, and Lindbergh was denounced as an anti-Semite. In his hometown of Little Falls, Minnesota, his name was even removed from the town's water tower.

Six years earlier, Lindbergh had moved to England with his wife to escape the publicity surrounding the kidnapping and murder of their infant son. In 1936, he inspected Germany's military aviation program on behalf of the U.S. government, and in August attended the Summer Olympic Games in Berlin as a guests of Nazi Hermann Goering, the head of the Luftwaffe. Impressed by German industry and society under Adolf Hitler, the Lindberghs considered moving to Berlin.
NOTE this is from "his" website
http://www.charleslindbergh.com/americanfirst/index.asp