AMERICA FIRST TO BACK ANTI-WAR CANDIDATES
America First To Back Anti-War Candidates AMAJOR CHANGE in policy, under which the America First Committee will play a leading role in the 1942 Congressional elections, was announced by the...
...Wholehearted support will be given to those candidates, or any political party conforming to the American principles, whose records truly reflect the will of the people and the spirit and letter of the Constitution of the United States...
...The Committee declared that the program "will be undertaken I in a spirit free from partisanship and without regard to the political affiliations of the candidates...
...Members of Congress who have manifested a disposition to vote against further steps toward war have been subjected to the most drastic pressure by the Administration...
...Maintaining that it is the "immediate duty of the American people to return to Congress only those representatives who faithfully execute the people's trust," the Committee declared that "efforts must be directed toward the renomination and reelection in 1942 of those Senators and Representatives in Congress who have kept faith with the people's mandate to avoid participation in the war...
...It will not be used as an attempt to build a third party...
...Today America is confronted with a condition which strikes at the basic principle of the American way of life—government by the consent of the governed...
...We know from the experiences of other countries that Fascism results when the legislative branch of the government surrenders to one man its power to make decisions for the people...
...Wendell Willkie, too, has indicated his intention to attempt to purge Republican Senators and Representatives who dare to support the pledge in their own party platform against entering the war...
...America First To Back Anti-War Candidates AMAJOR CHANGE in policy, under which the America First Committee will play a leading role in the 1942 Congressional elections, was announced by the Committee this week through its national chairman, Gen...
...The America First Committee, therefore, feels it to be its duty to enable its members in any state or district to counteract these pressures and themselves to mobilize their supporters behind those public officials who oppose further steps to involve us in war...
...Robert E. Wood...
Vol. 5 • December 1941 • No. 49
