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...direction of the White House: "Mr. Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy, Mr. President, Mr. Chief Executive . . . keep your hands off the Congress of the United States!" Senator George, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said he was opposed to convoys. An Associated Press poll of the Senate showed 45 Senators for convoys, 40 opposed - enough to prevent action...
...heard charge that appeasement sentiment is strong among tycoons, businessmen gave the lie this week. Sounding board for the nation's 35,000 top management men is FORTUNE'S Forum of Executive Opinion, and its fifth poll gave overwhelming evidence that U.S. executives want no part of Adolf Hitler or his New Order, believe their future is tied up with a British victory, see eye to eye with their old enemy Franklin Roosevelt on aid to Britain...
With special reference to the President's recent decision on extending the naval patrol, the petition claims that recent Gallup Poll returns have shown an overwhelming proportion of the American people to be in support of Administration policy...
...your editorial "Two Thirds of a Nation" which you printed last week, you showed that 67 per cent of the people in the United States, by Gallup's figures, were opposed to the use of convoys. I believe that this week's Gallup poll is even more interesting and relevant. It is more important to know the comparative value which is attached in the people's minds to the alternatives we have, than their opinion of what is strategically necessary to carry that out at any one moment. Sixty-eight per cent would favor the United States' going into...
...only is the vast majority shown which favors our entrance if necessary to defeat the Axis, but there has been a large shift on the convoy question. From the Crimson's figure of 27 per cent quoted last Monday, it had changed by the middle of the week poll until "41 per cent said they now favored the use of United States naval convoys." (Times). Over a 50 per cent increase in so short a time is highly indicative that the United States is rapidly coming to believe that the time when it must enter the war to make sure...