Isolationism Is Compared To Hitler Anti-Semitic Pattern

Isolationism Is Compared To Hitler Anti-Semitic Pattern

"It looks as if the isolatinist movement in the United States copies the Hitler pattern of anti-Semitism ass a means of destroying the  national unity," a statement by the Ann Arbor chapter of the, Committee to Defend America charges in condemning anti-Semitic remarks by Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, a leader of the America First group.

The committee's full statement is as follows:

"The American people are waiting, probably in vain, to see if any member of the America First group or any of the isolationist senators will condemn Colonel Lindbergh for his anti-Semitic speech at Des Moines, or Senator Nye for his anti-Semitic statements before the so-called sub-committee holding hearings on the motion picture industry and war.

"It is not enough to condemn Lindbergh and Nye. Why was it that when Nye was testifying before the Senate committee not a single isolationist senator condemned his testimony? Why did Brooks and Tobey and Clark remain silent during Nye’s infamous remarks?

"Why is it that no influential member of the America First Committee has spoken out to repudiate the anti-Semitic views of Colonel Lindbergh at Des Moines? Lindbergh spoke there under the auspices of the America First Committee, and the America First Committee has been credited in the press with prompting the investigation of the motion picture industry.

“Unless and until the isolationist bloc of the Senate, the isolationist America First Committee, and the isolationist leaders of the country generally openly repudiate Senator Nye and Charles Lindbergh, the American people will proceed on the assumption that the isolationist movement in the United States copies the Hitler pattern of anti-Semitism as a means of destroying national unity.

"Many Americans who up to now professed to believe that Colonel Lindbergh was simply misguided, were shocked at his speech in Des Moines because it followed the Nazi racial pattern. It sounded very much like the speeches that Hitler’s dupes or lieutenants made in France and in other countries, where the attempt was made to divide before attack.

"It looks as if the leading isolationists of this country were following the same tactics and fitting in the same ideological pattern as did the Nazi sympathizers in countries that Hitler has already destroyed.

"The American people will not stand for it; they will not have the democracy and tolerance of this country destroyed by those who would weaken its national will by Nazi tactics.”