America First

The committee America First ( America initially ) was the American independent group of pressure to be opposed, at the beginning of the Années 1940, with the entry of the the United States in the Second world war. It was founded in 1940 and dissolves in 1941. In 1980, a Racist movement and of American Extrême right-hand side took again the name of America First and was designated as the heir to the first formation.

The AFC ( America First Commitee ) was founded on September 4th 1940 by R. Douglas Stuart, Jr. a student in right of the University Yale, with the participation of other students, of which the future president Gerald Ford. The committee was chaired by the General Robert E. Wood. Although this last accepted this station only as temporary, it occupied this function until the dissolution of the committee, a few days after the attack of Pearl Harbor. America First would have had to 800.000 members, gathered in 650 cells mainly located at Chicago and in the neighboring states. The AFC asserted 135.000 members in the Illinois, its principal bastion. It, on the other hand, was developed little in the south of the United States. The committee succeeds in collecting approximately 370.000 dollars of 25.000 givers.

Doctrines of the America First Commitee

The AFC launched a petition enjoignant the US government to apply the Neutrality Act of 1939 and requiring of President Franklin D. Roosevelt that it keep to his commitment to leave America to the variation of the war. The organization indeed showed Roosevelt to lie to the American people.

The AFC was opposed to any form of American intervention in the war in Europe and militated for a strict neutrality of the United States. She denounced the material aid provided to the United Kingdom for her effort of war which she reproached her cost and the risk that she presented to see the country slipping into the war. In parallel, the AFC preached the rearmament of the United States in order to secure them against any risk of foreign attack.

Charles Lindbergh and America First

The aviator Charles Lindbergh started to blame the foreign politics of Roosevelt well before the formation of the AFC. He decided, before even the beginning of the Bataille of England, against any American military intervention in Europe. In 1940 and 1941, Lindbergh became more proéminant militants of America First . The committee benefitted from its great notoriety.

External bond

Official site of the AFC of 1980

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