Dustyg
09-19-2016, 06:54 PM
From the book "The Serenity Prayer" by Elisabeth Sifton (Reinhold Niebuhr wrote the prayer) page 229
"One can't credit the neutralism of these Americans in 1940-1941 with 'pacifism' for the simple reason that many of them weren't pacifist at all, and the ones who claimed to be were murky about the grounds on which they built their doctrine...(skipping ahead)...The brassiest in this band were the rich, influential and bellicose supporters of America First, reactionary isolationists claiming Charles Lindberg as their mascot" Read on for more on this subject.
"One can't credit the neutralism of these Americans in 1940-1941 with 'pacifism' for the simple reason that many of them weren't pacifist at all, and the ones who claimed to be were murky about the grounds on which they built their doctrine...(skipping ahead)...The brassiest in this band were the rich, influential and bellicose supporters of America First, reactionary isolationists claiming Charles Lindberg as their mascot" Read on for more on this subject.