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[VanEpsFan1914]

a sizable minority of “America First” xenophobic isolationists actively opposed to any involvement in European affairs

On a whim at a thrift shop I bought five Kathleen Norris novels from the 1930s and early 1940s, in neatly clothbound editions. They were in excellent shape. I thought I recognized the name of the author.
Turns out, Kathleen Norris (1880-1966) was a very controversial, widely popular author in the United States. Her books were printed time and again, turned into silent movies and radio shows, and stuck in the magazines. Norris also was part of the America First movement--basically after WWI and the mess of the 1920s, Americans didn't want to go to war. I get that, I really do. But you don't pretend that Hitler is just visiting the Polish.

Not a Norris fan--she wrote utter pablum if those books were any indication--but I did keep them as artifacts of America's wild isolation craze.

If you want to see some wild stuff from this time, look up some of Dr. Seuss's cartoons on America First & Fr. Coughlin (a popular radio speaker and a Catholic priest. Based on what he said on the radio, I hate to know how he treated the people at his church.)


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_F ... membership

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Norris


And Mussolini left all dictators an excellent example--he died; more dictators should probably do that.

Charles F

[ChesterCheetah18]

"And Mussolini left all dictators an excellent example--he died; more dictators should probably do that."

To be fair, Mussolini et al had some "help". However, when it comes to dictators, I suppose "by any means necessary" would seem appropriate.

Steve