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* "Aid short of war" weakens national defense at home and threatens to involve America in war abroad.
* "Aid short of war" weakens national defense at home and threatens to involve America in war abroad.
The center was in Chicago, where the national headquarters was established.
The center was in Chicago, where the national headquarters was established. The head was General [[Robert E. Wood]], the chairman of Sears, Roebuck and Company.
[[File:Wood1941.jpg|thumb|280px|General Robert E. Wood, the chairman of Sears, Roebuck, headed America First; [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,790233,00.html Oct. 6, 1941 online story]]]
===Lindbergh===
===Lindbergh===
On June 20, 1940 Lindbergh spoke to a rally in Los Angeles billed as "Peace and Preparedness Mass Meeting". He attacked movements that he perceived as leading America into the war. He proclaimed that the United States was in a position that made it virtually impregnable and he pointed out that when interventionists said ''"the defense of England"'' they really meant ''"defeat of Germany."'' The rhetoric escalated in Lindbergh's famous speech in Des Moines, Iowa, on September 11, 1941. he identified the forces pulling America into the war as the British, the Roosevelt administration, and the Jews. While he expressed sympathy for the plight of the Jews in Germany, he argued that America's entry into the war would serve them little better. He said in part:
On June 20, 1940 Lindbergh spoke to a rally in Los Angeles billed as "Peace and Preparedness Mass Meeting". He attacked movements that he perceived as leading America into the war. He proclaimed that the United States was in a position that made it virtually impregnable and he pointed out that when interventionists said ''"the defense of England"'' they really meant ''"defeat of Germany."'' The rhetoric escalated in Lindbergh's famous speech in Des Moines, Iowa, on September 11, 1941. he identified the forces pulling America into the war as the British, the Roosevelt administration, and the Jews. While he expressed sympathy for the plight of the Jews in Germany, he argued that America's entry into the war would serve them little better. He said in part: