raystone
04-06-2008, 03:49 PM
America First organization started in 1940 and had approximately 800,000 members.
The platform in '40...
- 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.
They has Lindbergh has major spokesperson !
It still exists today and is somewhat of a revival.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Committee
I'm reading David Rockefeller Memoirs, and he mentions it existing during his youth.
The platform in '40...
- 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.
They has Lindbergh has major spokesperson !
It still exists today and is somewhat of a revival.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Committee
I'm reading David Rockefeller Memoirs, and he mentions it existing during his youth.