Changes

On June 22, 1941, Soviet policy was rather abruptly forced to change, and CPUSA policy changed likewise; from "The Yanks Are Not Coming!" to "The Yanks Are Not Coming Too Late!" shows how shallow and trivial the subsequent CPUSA devotion to the war effort was. Dated June 20, 1941, it  

On June 22, 1941, Soviet policy was rather abruptly forced to change, and CPUSA policy changed likewise; from "The Yanks Are Not Coming!" to "The Yanks Are Not Coming Too Late!" shows how shallow and trivial the subsequent CPUSA devotion to the war effort was. Dated June 20, 1941, it  

Soviet instructions called for unflinching opposition to the U.S. defense effort.<ref>'''The Soviet World of American Communism''', by Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes, and Kyrill M. Anderson, (Yale University Press, 1998, [http://books.google.com/books?id=nHKvFVnBLGYC&pg=PA181&lpg=PA181&dq=klehr%2Bsoviet+funding&source=bl&ots=vwZxZAZbm0&sig=kGX_ooUN8vu70R-rVyuNSKJoQOs&hl=en&ei=9bONSq0witg2oKLIrwo&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#v=onepage&q=Document%2017%20&f=false Document 17, pp. 85, 88-91.] ISBN 0-300-07150-7;</ref>  Davis became an articulate opponent of [[President Franklin Roosevelt]]'s policy of [[Lend Lease]] aid to Great Britain.  Speaking to an audience of the [[communist front]] [[National Negro Congress]] in 1940, Davis said,  

Soviet instructions called for unflinching opposition to the U.S. defense effort.<ref>''The Soviet World of American Communism'', by Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes, and Kyrill M. Anderson, (Yale University Press, 1998, [http://books.google.com/books?id=nHKvFVnBLGYC&pg=PA181&lpg=PA181&dq=klehr%2Bsoviet+funding&source=bl&ots=vwZxZAZbm0&sig=kGX_ooUN8vu70R-rVyuNSKJoQOs&hl=en&ei=9bONSq0witg2oKLIrwo&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#v=onepage&q=Document%2017%20&f=false Document 17, pp. 85, 88-91.] ISBN 0-300-07150-7;</ref>  Davis became an articulate opponent of [[President Franklin Roosevelt]]'s policy of [[Lend Lease]] aid to Great Britain.  Speaking to an audience of the [[communist front]] [[National Negro Congress]] in 1940, Davis said,  

{{Cquote|Negroes and the whole American people are being called upon to 'sacrifice for national defense.' Our country may soon be actively engaged in another war. Facing this crisis, the people are forced to think and to act lest, under the wave of war hysteria, they be bludgeoned into situations against their best interest.<ref>Illinois Conference of the National Negro Congress, November 9th - 10th, 1940, cited in [http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/hawaii-obama.pdf ''Communism in Hawaii and the Obama Connection''] by Cliff Kincaid and Herbert Romerstein, p.15-16, 38, 42.</ref>}}  

{{Cquote|Negroes and the whole American people are being called upon to 'sacrifice for national defense.' Our country may soon be actively engaged in another war. Facing this crisis, the people are forced to think and to act lest, under the wave of war hysteria, they be bludgeoned into situations against their best interest.<ref>Illinois Conference of the National Negro Congress, November 9th - 10th, 1940, cited in [http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/hawaii-obama.pdf ''Communism in Hawaii and the Obama Connection''] by Cliff Kincaid and Herbert Romerstein, p.15-16, 38, 42.</ref>}}