"The Harvard Crimson declared in an editorial, “We refuse to fight another balance-of-power war.” And after Joseph Stalin signed a nonaggression pact with Nazi Germany in 1939, American Communists obediently heeded Moscow and denounced Roosevelt as a warmonger. "At the same time, senators like Gerald P. Nye, who had headed an investigation into the munitions manufacturers of World War I (“merchants of death”), attacked the idea of bailing out “British plutocrats.” What’s more, appeasers like Henry Ford, Joseph P. Kennedy and Lindbergh called for cooperation with the poor misunderstood Nazis, while The Wall Street Journal pleaded for “realism” in a June 1940 editorial, arguing that Hitler had “already determined the broad lines of our national life for at least another generation.” Just as American Communists hailed the progress represented by the Soviet Union, so appeasers on the right saw Hitler’s fascism as the inevitable wave of the future, even as they denounced Roosevelt’s New Deal totalitarianism."
Posted on: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 21:13:21 +0000
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