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The '''American Peace Mobilization''' was a [[Comintern]] affiliate organization formed in 1940 to keep the [[United States]] out of [[World War II|World&nbsp;War&nbsp;II]]. Many [[Popular Front]] [[liberal]]s joined and denounced President [[Franklin Roosevelt]] for proposing that the [[Neutrality Act]]'s embargo provisions be repealed to aid the countries that were fighting [[Hitler]]. <ref>''The Soviet World of American Communism'', Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes & Kyrill M. Anderson, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995, pg. 75.</ref>  The American Peace Mobilization promoted the interests of the [[Soviet Union]], which was at that time aligned during the [[Communazi reapproachment]] with [[Nazi Germany]] by the [[Molotov-Ribbentrop pact]]. [[Frederick Vanderbilt Field]] was its executive secretary.  Congressman [[Vito Marcantonio]] was one of its vice chairs.
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The '''American Peace Mobilization''' was a [[Comintern]] affiliate organization formed in 1940 to keep the [[United States]] out of [[World War II|World&nbsp;War&nbsp;II]]. Many [[Popular Front]] [[liberal]]s joined and denounced President [[Franklin Roosevelt]] for proposing that the [[Neutrality Act]]'s embargo provisions be repealed to aid the countries that were fighting [[Hitler]].<ref>''The Soviet World of American Communism'', Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes & Kyrill M. Anderson, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995, pg. 75.</ref>  The American Peace Mobilization promoted the interests of the [[Soviet Union]], which was at that time aligned during the [[Communazi reapproachment]] with [[Nazi Germany]] by the [[Molotov-Ribbentrop pact]]. [[Frederick Vanderbilt Field]] was its executive secretary.  Congressman [[Vito Marcantonio]] was one of its vice chairs.
    
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The organization renamed itself the '''American People's Mobilization''' until it closed down later.
 
The organization renamed itself the '''American People's Mobilization''' until it closed down later.
 
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[http://www.swarthmore.edu/library/peace/CDGA.A-L/ampeoplesmob.htm American Peoples Mobilization Collected Records, 1940-1941], ''Peace Collection, Swarthmore College'', </ref>  While the Communist Party and its various [[front organizations]] completely reversed their position on U.S. entry into the Second World War, the pro-Nazi [[German American Bund]] and the isolationists of the [[America First]] movement continued their opposition until the U.S. was attacked on December 7th.
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[http://www.swarthmore.edu/library/peace/CDGA.A-L/ampeoplesmob.htm American Peoples Mobilization Collected Records, 1940-1941], ''Peace Collection, Swarthmore College'',</ref>  While the Communist Party and its various [[front organizations]] completely reversed their position on U.S. entry into the Second World War, the pro-Nazi [[German American Bund]] and the isolationists of the [[America First]] movement continued their opposition until the U.S. was attacked on December 7.
    
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