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The principal pressure group opposing America First was the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, which argued that a German defeat of Britain would in fact endanger American security, and which argued that aiding the British would reduce, not increase, the likelihood of the United States being pulled into the war. [34]
The America First Committee's membership peaked at 800,000 paying members in 450 chapters, and it popularized the slogan "America First". [3] While the America First Committee had a variety of supporters in the U.S., the movement was muddled with anti-Semitic and fascist rhetoric. [ 18 ]
at an America First rally held in the Des Moines Coliseum in Des Moines, Iowa, [26] on September 11, 1941. [27] Eight thousand people attended in person, [26] and it was broadcast by radio to a national audience. [28] When Lindbergh got on stage with others from the America First Committee, members of the crowd variously applauded and booed. [29]
An early opponent of American involvement in World War II, Shriver was a founding member of the America First Committee, an organization started in 1940 by a group of Yale Law School students, also including future President Gerald Ford and future Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, which tried to keep the US out of the European war. [10]
American conservatives have criticized the course framework for downplaying American exceptionalism and failing to foster patriotism. In 2015, a bill to replace the course framework was passed by the Oklahoma House Committee on Common Education, but later withdrawn. [2] [3] The course framework was revised in 2015 in response to the criticism.
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In September 1940, Flynn helped establish the America First Committee (AFC), which he abandoned when Pearl Harbor was attacked a year later, switching to support of the war effort. [2] In his intense opposition to Roosevelt, Flynn later went on to advance the Pearl Harbor advance-knowledge conspiracy theory .
Robert Douglas Stuart Jr. (April 26, 1916 – May 8, 2014) was the son of Quaker Oats Company co-founder R. Douglas Stuart, the founder of the America First Committee in 1940, the CEO of Quaker Oats from 1966 to 1981, and United States Ambassador to Norway from 1984 to 1989.