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Lindbergh and the "America First" Movement:
America First was an isolationist movement began by several Yale University graduates who wanted to form an organization in "support of those who feel, as we do, that the policy of the US should be hemisphere defense rather than European intervention." One of the founders, R. Douglas Stuart, Jr., contacted Lindbergh after the aviator's first anti-war speech in 1939. Lindbergh spoke for the organization on October 23, 1940, after giving an address at Yale the previous night.
Over the next few months, Lindbergh gave thirteen speeches on behalf of America First, and his involvement in the organization helped to boost its membership from 300,000, early in 1941, to 800,000. |