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I didn't know about the Republicans issues, I thought Kennedy was the
driving force behind Hitler appeasement.
The CAP material was in Parade magazine, a Sunday paper feel-good
publication.
But again, thank you for the great background.
Kevin T.
Waiting for the Easter Bunny to rise from his tomb.
You didn't cause they weren't. :-) The left wing of the Democratic Party
was consistently isolationist, as was the right wing of the Republican
Party. The American far left was isolationist until the German invasion of
the USSR, when it flipped over completely - we now know on orders from
Stalin, although no one did at the time, of course. The American far right
stayed isolationist until Pearl Harbor, when it wanted the US to level
Japan but conclude some sort of peace with Germany. But the Republican
nominee in 1940 (Landon, I think) absolutely refused to make an issue of
Roosevelt's pro-British foreign policy, even though it would have helped
him in the election, because he agreed with it and would have done the same
were he President. Both Republican and Democratic elites wanted to get
involved - it's just that they had no popular support for that position.
Gautam
