Aviation pioneer, Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., son of isolationist Republican former Congressman Charles, Sr., of Minnesota, speaks to the America First Committee convention in New York City:

       In time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda.

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       I say it is the interventionist in America, as it was in England, and in France, who gives comfort to the enemy.  I say it is they who are undermining the principles of democracy when they demand that we take a course to which more than 80 percent of our citizens are opposed.  I charge them with being the real defeatists, for their policy has led to the defeat of every country that followed their advice since this war began.

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       … It is not a new and untried idea.  It was advocated by [George] Washington.  It was incorporated in the Monroe Doctrine.  Under its guidance, the United [s]tates has become the greatest nation in the world.

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        [W]e have divided our own people by this dabbling in Europe’s wars.  While we should have been concentrating on American defense, we have been forced to argue over foreign quarrels.  We must turn our eyes and our faith back to our own country before it is too late.  And when we do this, a different vista opens before us.  Practically every difficulty we would face in invading Europe becomes an asset to us in defending America.

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       War is not inevitable for this country.  Such a claim is defeatism on the true sense.  No one can make us fight abroad unless we ourselves are willing to do so. No one will attempt to fight us here if we arm ourselves as a great nation should be armed.  Over a hundred million people in this nation are opposed to entering the war. …

       [added 7/25/2022]