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...William Allen White, so-called interventionist-warmonger, chairman of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, mildly defined his aims: to aid England, but not to the extent of involving the U. S. in war, not to repeal the Johnson Act, not to convoy supplies to England. Shocked at this lukewarmth, several of his committee members immediately branded his words as a shameful retreat toward isolation. Major General John F. O'Ryan resigned from the committee. In effect, the interventionist committee seemed too isolationist...
...week's end the America First Committee was working overtime to prevent transfer of more destroyers and bombers to Britain, was girding its loins for the next session of Congress, to fight repeal of the Johnson Act (no loans to defaulters on World War I loans) and the Neutrality Act (cash & carry aid only...
They went on record as "favoring the complete exemption of agricultural labor from the Wages & Hours Law, the National Labor Relations Act, the Social Security Act and similar legislation," as opposed to repeal of local anti-picketing ordinances in California, to the closed shop and the "hiring hall...
...with President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull, and emerged saying, "My discussion on conditions was optimistic-providing we get some help from you." Washington's mood about aid to Britain probably kept Lord Lothian from being too hopeful. The President had decided to postpone any attempt to repeal the Johnson Act to permit British credits until the next Congress meets in January. There were stories that President Roosevelt was becoming disposed to go slow on aid to Britain, possibly fearful that Britain might soon be past...
...Washington, most observers long since had given the lie to the President's assertion that loans to Britain had not yet been considered. They believed that a primary Roosevelt request of the new January Congress would be repeal of the Johnson Act, which bars new loans to debt defaulters such as Great Britain. (Foregone conclusion, observers added, was swift passage of such repeal.) How could he avoid it, they asked? There were a dozen signs that aid to Britain was the foremost Administration policy...