Talk:America First Committee

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Lindbergh Des Moines speech is very important and should go back in Rjensen 21:08, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

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This article should be updated due to the refounding of the America First Committee. The current site is America First Comittee

They don't appear to be much of a movement. Off hand it looks like a handful of people who are a single person usurping a previous name. The website gives very little actual info about the group, and I can't find any third party mention of them. Without more info they do not appear to be significant or noteworthy. -Will Beback 00:52, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

good article, but who is the quoted source CMH ??? --87.185.120.168 13:49, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Why has the quote been removed?

The way it is now, it looks like some people still admire America First because Pat Buchanan says it. Before, it had Buchanan explaining why supporters like it. What he is saying is not particularly controversial. I don't think anyone, supporters or detractors, have challenged the well-known fact that the isolationists were a serious roadblock to American entry into the war. And no one can deny that the bloodiest fighting happened on the Eastern Front, and that the Soviet Union suffered the worst casualties. I'm reverting it.Shield2 07:21, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

The article reads as if delaying the US entry into the war made Stalin weaker. This is arguable; certainly, an inordinate number of Soviet persons died as a result of the Nazi invasion. This may not have weakened Stalin's political status, however, and one might surmise that it gave him the "excuse" to murder thousands more.

The delayed US entry likely cost many European lives, not that America First cared.PedEye1 13:41, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Woody Guthrie Song "Lindbergh"

I recently acquired a CD of Woody Guthrie songs with one entitled "Lindbergh" which is very anti-Lindbergh and anti-America First. The CD is from Smithsonian Folkways and the recording seems to be from 1964, but I imagine the song must have been written soon after Pearl Harbor since it exhorts working men to fight Hitler. I was wondering if anyone could add some information as to whether this song was popular in that era and the impact it might have had on the politics. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Silkowski (talk • contribs) 21:41, 22 December 2007 (UTC)