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[0061] America First Committee records, 1940-1942, Coll. 42001

Location: Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-6010

Description: Correspondence, minutes, reports, studies, financial records, press releases, speeches, newsletters, campaign literature, clippings, photographs, and other audiovisual material, relating to the issue of American neutrality in World War II. Organization Department Files contain files on Charles A. Lindbergh, America First Club, Neutrality vote, Pettengill's file to Congressmen, Chapter reactions to C. A. Lindbergh's Des Moines speech (Sept. 11, 1941), and Special campaign - Neutrality Act fight. Publicity and Research Files contain files on Stephen A. Day, Fight for Freedom Committee, Hamilton Fish, John T. Flynn, Lord Halifax, Herbert Hoover, Keep America Out of War Congress, Alfred M. Landon, Lend-Lease Bill, Charles A. Lindbergh, Alice Longworth, Henry R. Luce, Hanford MacNider, Mothers' Groups, Karl E. Mundt, Neutrality, No Foreign War Committee, Senator Nye, George N. Peek, General Robert Wood, Porter Sargent, Robert A. Taft, American Economic Foundation, Citizens No Foreign War Coalition, Dorothy Thompson, Honorable George Holden Tinkham, Senator Burton K. Wheeler, Wendell L. Willkie, and Uncensored. Speakers Bureau Files contain files on Harry Elmer Barnes, Congressman Usher L. Burdick, Senator Capper, Gertrude Coogan, Congressman Stephen A. Day, Hamilton Fish, Congressman Clare E. Hoffman, Honorable Rush D. Holt, Honorable Ben F. Jensen, Senator William Langer, Charles A. Lindbergh, Senator Pat McCarran, Colonel MacNider, Dean Clarence Manion (Notre Dame University), Congressman Karl Mundt, William H. ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray, Senator Gerald P. Nye, Senator Lee O'Daniel, George N. Peek, Samuel B. Pettengill, Senator Robert R. Reynolds, Senator Robert A. Taft, and Senator Burton K. Wheeler. Miscellaneous Office Files contain files on A.F.C. Bulletins, Neutrality Law, Lend-Lease Bill, Tribute to General Wood, Colonel Lindbergh's Des Moines speech, R.E. Wood-correspondence, Alfred M. Landon-correspondence, Charles Lindbergh-clippings, and A.F.C. Newsletters (Impeachment of Roosevelt, Against Lend-Lease, Political backing for isolationists, Neutrality debate in Senate, Connection with Nazis). Sound Recordings contain recordings of a Charles Lindbergh speech 1941 April 23 (This speech was delivered at Manhattan Center and broadcast by WMCA in New York); an interview with Brigadier General Robert E. Wood 1941 July 25; a Senator Burton K. Wheeler speech undated; and a Robert E. Wood speech: Our Foreign Policy, 1940 October 26. Correspondents include William Benton, L. M. Birkhead, Lawrence Dennis, J. T. Flynn, Frederick Kister, Sterling Morton, G. N. Peek, S. B. Pettengill, Edward Rickenbacker, E. J. Smythe, Jacob Thorkelson, Mrs. E. S. Welch, B. K. Wheeler, and General Robert E. Wood. Mimeographed texts of addresses by Hamilton Fish, J. T. Flynn, C. A. Lindbergh, G. P. Nye, B. K. Wheeler, and R. E. Wood.

References:

Wayne S. Cole, "The America First Committee," Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, Volume 44, No. 4 (Winter 1951), pp. 305-322, http://dig.lib.niu.edu/ISHS/ishs-1951winter/ishs-1951winter-305.pdf; Wayne S. Cole, America First: The Battle Against Intervention 1940-1941 (Madison, The University of Wisconsin Press, 1953), http://archive.org/stream/americafirsttheb000771mbp/americafirsttheb­000771mbp_djvu.txt.

Finding aids:

http://pdf.oac.cdlib.org/pdf/hoover/reg_345.pdf

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf9s20075g/entire_text/

Finding aids to photographs (42001 - 8.01/03):

Contains 18 photographs of General Robert E. Wood, John T. Flynn, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Charles A. Lindbergh, Sen. D. Worth Clark, Kathleen Norris, Lillian Gish, and Cong. Karl E. Mundt.

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt7c603790/entire_text/

http://cdn.calisphere.org/data/13030/90/kt7c603790/files/kt7c603790.pdf

[0062] America First Committee research collection, 1940-1942, Manuscript Collection No. 411

Location: Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Robert W. Woodruff Library, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322-2870

Description: The America First Committee was founded in the summer of 1940 as an "anti-interventionist" organization opposed to President Franklin Roosevelt's foreign policy decisions leading up to U.S. entry into World War II. The committee espoused isolationism, argued for increased spending for U.S. domestic defense, and opposed U.S. entry into World War II. The collection consists of papers collected by Morris Burns Stanley from 1940 until 1942. The papers include the America First Committee's correspondence, printed material relating to the movement, and a box of research notes. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence between Stanley and leading Committee members and other active members of the non-interventionist movement, including Harry Byrd, D. Worth Clark, James Fallon, Gerald P. Nye, Robert R. Reynolds, and Charles W. Tobey. The collection also contains copies of the Congressional Record; printed material regarding the organization; America First Committee reports; a box of research notes probably compiled by Stanley; and printed material by the Friends of Democracy, an organization opposed to the efforts of the America First Committee.

Finding aids:

http://findingaids.library.emory.edu/documents/stanley411/

http://findingaids.library.emory.edu/documents/stanley411/printable/

[0063] America First Movement, MS10

Location: Manuscripts and Archives, McCormick Library, Northwestern University Library, 1970 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208-2300

Description: This collection provides materials from three sources: the America First Committee, other American groups with similar goals, and German propaganda in the 1930s. Materials include pamphlets, small monographs, serials, correspondence, flyers, posters, political ephemera, and photographs. The first section is composed of materials from the actual America First Committee, a group opposed to American entry into World War II, active in 1940-1941. Many of these pieces are concerned in particular with the Los Angeles area branch of the movement. The second section is made up of materials from other American groups, who, while having the same goal as the America First Committee, were not officially affiliated with it. These groups are also from the Los Angeles area. Most are extremely conservative and materials reflect the anti-Semitism, racism, and anti-Communism masquerading behind the respectable front of association with the America First Committee itself and Charles Lindbergh. Also included in the movement were pro-German Bund societies, and some pieces reflect that association. The third category of materials in the collection include pamphlets, serials, and photographs from Germany.

Websites with information:

http://www.library.northwestern.edu/libraries-collections/evanston-campus/special-collections/manuscripts-and-archives

Finding aids:

http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/americafirst.pdf

http://web.archive.org/web/20100607155133/http://www.library.northwestern.edu/spec/pdf/americafirst.p

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https://web.archive.org/web/20100607155133/http://www.library.northwestern.edu/spec/pdf/americafirst

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[0064] America Magazine Archives, c.1909-1989 (bulk 1909-1989), GTM.GAMMS60

Location: Booth Family Center for Special Collections, Georgetown University Library, 37th & O Streets NW, Washington, DC 20057-1174

Description: With headquarters in New York City, America Magazine was founded in 1909. Contains correspondence from Ezra Pound to Francis Talbot, Mar. 26 [1940?], to S[tephen] J. Meany, Sept. 7, 1940, to America Press and S.J. Meany, Apr. 26, 1959, and to Thurston Davis, May 29, 1959; the National Gentile League [Donald Shea], which alleges a connection between U.S. Jews and Communism, 1938; Edward A. Rumely of the League for Constitutional Government (National Committee to Uphold Constitutional Government), 1939; Dorothy Thompson, 1939; T.S. Eliot to John LaFarge, S.J., Sept. 17, 1946; George S. Viereck [sometimes under the nom de plume Donald Furthman Wickets], 1939-1940; George Lincoln Rockwell, the head of the American Nazi Party, May 26, 1964; J. Edgar Hoover to Thurston Davis, Apr. 10, 1958, to F.X. Talbot, S.J., Aug. 24, 1937, and Dec. 20, 1937, to F.D. Sullivan, S.J., Dec. 9, 1937, and to Benjamin L. Masse, Mar. 16, 1944; U.S. Senator Gerald P. Nye, 1934; Leonard Feeney, S.J. 1928-1934; John Birch Society, 1961; Merwin K. Hart, Chairman of the Committee to Send Anesthetics and Medicines to Spain, 1939-1943; a letter (Jul. 11, 1940) from the Bishop of Savannah, Georgia [Bishop Gerald P. O'Hara], which addresses the subject of an invitation extended by him to the Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard [Hiram Wesley Evans] to attend the dedication of the Co-Cathedral of Christ the King in Atlanta in 1939; Westbrook Pegler, 1956-1964; Rev. Charles Coughlin, 1939-1941; and correspondence (1939) pertaining to the anti-Semitic news releases of the Nationalist Press Association [New York]. Also includes manuscripts by Ezra Pound and copies of the following manuscripts and publications: Elizabeth Dilling, Director of the Patriotic Research Bureau [Chicago], "Has America Two Major Parties?" (1940), concerning Wendell Willkie's nomination bid for the Republican Presidential ticket (1940); a newsletter of the Patriotic Research Bureau [for the Defense of Christianity and Americanism] [Elizabeth Dilling], containing the reprint of a Chicago "Daily News" article (1938) on Bishop Bernard J. Sheil; a copy of "The Hour" (100 E. 42nd St., New York) (Sept. 27, 1941), dedicated to exposing Nazi and Fascist activities in the United States, which features the activities of Charles A. Lindbergh, Charles Coughlin, and America First; a printed copy of "A Letter to Americans" (1941) by Charles A. Lindbergh; Character Study of Bertrand Russell, by Harry A. Jung; a news bulletin (1933) pertaining to the recently appointed Assistant Secretary of State, Raymond Moley; Spain material news releases and varia (1936-1937) pertaining to Rightist Propaganda; a newsclipping (1939) concerning John V. Henkel, a pro-Franco/fascist news reporter; an article by Leonard Feeney, S.J., "The Brown Derby" (1928); Hilaire Belloc's pamphlet "The Catholic and the War"; a newsclipping (1941) of an article by Henry R. Luce; newsclippings and periodicals (1961-1962) pertaining to the John Birch Society; newsclippings (1940) which pertain to U.S. isolationism in the early years of World War II; newsclippings (1940) pertaining to J. Edgar Hoover and the Federal Bureau of Investigation; correspondence and newsclippings (1939-1940) pertaining to the Ku Klux Klan; an anti-B'nai B'rith Society pamphlet entitled "B'nai B'rith-An International Anti-Christian, Pro-Communist Jewish Power," by John Merrick Church [i.e., Robert Edward Edmondson] (ca. 1938) [online at https://repository.library.nd.edu/view/1085/­000768945.pdf]; an article by Westbrook Pegler, "Why the Catholics Shouldn't Be Indignant Against Gov't in Spain" (1938); an anti-Semitic pamphlet entitled Judaism and Bolshevism: A Challenge and a Reply, by Annie Homer (1936), which alleges, among other things, that Judaism is the source of Bolshevism; newsclippings (1940) pertaining to Joseph E. McWilliams, anti-Semitic leader of the American Destiny Party; newsclippings (1940-1941) pertaining to Herbert Hoover's food plan; Herbert Hoover's radio address entitled "Can Europe's Children Be Saved?"; newsclippings (1954-1958) pertaining to U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin; newsclippings pertaining to Rev. Charles Coughlin, covering the period 1935-1940; a typescript entitled "Round Table on Father Coughlin," in which some of Coughlin's 16 points [i.e., the 16-point program of the National Union For Social Justice] are analyzed and discussed; The Real Father Coughlin (1939), by A.B. Magil [online at http://digital.library.pitt.edu/u/ulsmanuscripts/pdf/­31735061658427.pdf]; and Father Coughlin on the Air (1938), by Msgr. John A. Ryan.