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The '''American Peace Mobilization''' was an organization formed in 1940 to keep the [[United States]] out of [[World War II|World War II]].

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joined and denounced President [[Franklin Roosevelt]] for proposing that the [[Neutrality Act]]'s embargo provisions be repealed to aid the countries that were fighting [[Hitler]].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.

 

Many of its founders were acting in support of the [[Soviet Union]], which was at that time aligned with [[Nazi Germany]] by the [[Hitler-Stalin pact]].  As such, the organization abruptly ended its 1,029-hour non-stop peace demonstration in front of the [[White House]] on June 21, 1941 &mdash; one day before the [[Operation Barbarossa|Nazis invaded]] the [[Soviet Union]].

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White House Pickets Stop At 1,029 Hours, ''Washington Post'', June 22, 1941</ref>

They became new advocates for war, and called for U.S. support of allied nations.<ref name="PurelyforPeace">

Purely for Peace, ''Time'', July 14, 1941</ref>

 

The organization renamed itself the '''American People's Mobilization''' until it closed down months later.

[http://www.swarthmore.edu/library/peace/CDGA.A-L/ampeoplesmob.htm American Peoples Mobilization Collected Records, 1940-1941], ''Peace Collection, Swarthmore College'', </ref>

 

[[Frederick Vanderbilt Field]] was its executive secretary.  Congressman [[Vito Marcantonio]] was one of its vice chairs.

 

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.

==Stated goals==

==Stated goals==

#Stop War profiteering.  Put lives ahead of profits. Put profits last on democracy's list. What helps democracy helps you.

#Stop War profiteering.  Put lives ahead of profits. Put profits last on democracy's list. What helps democracy helps you.

#Guarantee a decent standard of living for all. Work for more social and labor legislation. End discrimination.

#Guarantee a decent standard of living for all. Work for more social and labor legislation. End discrimination.

==Subversive Activities Control Board==

==Subversive Activities Control Board==

The [[Subversive Activities Control Board]] concluded that

The [[Subversive Activities Control Board]] concluded that

the Party functionary serving as executive secretary of the American Council, stated that the American Peace Mobilization and the American Council would be mere hollow shells without the [[CPUSA|Communist Party]] and that the Party 'had to use these means to weld the people into a fighting unit so that they could wrest the power from the dying ruling class.'<ref>

the Party functionary serving as executive secretary of the American Council, stated that the American Peace Mobilization and the American Council would be mere hollow shells without the [[CPUSA|Communist Party]] and that the Party 'had to use these means to weld the people into a fighting unit so that they could wrest the power from the dying ruling class.'<ref>

[http://ets.umdl.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=usfexec;cc=usfexec;idno=81242.0001.001;q1=American%20Peace%20Mobilization;frm=frameset;view=image;seq=502;page=root;size=s;endseq=3 Reports of the Subversive Activities Control Board], United States Government Printing Office, 1966. Vol. 1, pg. 491.</ref>

[http://ets.umdl.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=usfexec;cc=usfexec;idno=81242.0001.001;q1=American Peace Mobilization;frm=frameset;view=image;seq=502;page=root;size=s;endseq=3 Reports of the Subversive Activities Control Board], United States Government Printing Office, 1966. Vol. 1, pg. 491.</ref>

 

==References==  

==References==  

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