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==''Amerasia''==

==''Amerasia''==

In the mid-1930s he was on the editorial board of ''[[The New Masses]]''. He set up the journal ''[[Amerasia]]'' in 1937; its purpose being conceived as a vehicle for criticism of Japanese attacks in China<ref>Rudolf V. A. Janssens, ''"What Future for Japan?": U.S. Wartime Planning for the Postwar Era, 1942-1945'', p. 78.</ref> He was later attacked, in the Cold War period, as a [[communist]].

In the mid-1930s he was on the editorial board of the ''[[New Masses]]''. He set up the journal ''[[Amerasia]]'' in 1937; its purpose being conceived as a vehicle for criticism of Japanese attacks in China<ref>Rudolf V. A. Janssens, ''"What Future for Japan?": U.S. Wartime Planning for the Postwar Era, 1942-1945'', p. 78.</ref> He was later attacked, in the Cold War period, as a [[communist]].

In 1940 Field became executive secretary of APM, a position for which he had been recruited by [[Earl Browder|Browder]] himself. “Some time before the APM was formally organized,” wrote Field, “Earl Browder asked me if I would accept the executive secretaryship if it were offered me.”<ref>Frederick Vanderbilt Field, ''Op. cit.''</ref> At APM, Field emerged as a committed pacifist, demanding that the United States stay out of the war in Europe -– at least while the [[Hitler-Stalin pact]] lasted.<ref>[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,790078,00.html “Picketers Picketed,” ''Time'', June 2, 1941]</ref> But on June 20, 1941, Field suddenly called off the organization's “peace picketing” of the White House,<ref>“White House Pickets Stop At 1,029 Hours,” ''Washington Post'', June 22, 1941</ref> reversing himself to demand immediate U.S. war on Germany.<ref>[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849366,00.html "Purely for Peace," ''Time'', July 14, 1941]</ref> The following day, Germany invaded the Soviet Union.

In 1940 Field became executive secretary of APM, a position for which he had been recruited by [[Earl Browder|Browder]] himself. “Some time before the APM was formally organized,” wrote Field, “Earl Browder asked me if I would accept the executive secretaryship if it were offered me.”<ref>Frederick Vanderbilt Field, ''Op. cit.''</ref> At APM, Field emerged as a committed pacifist, demanding that the United States stay out of the war in Europe -– at least while the [[Hitler-Stalin pact]] lasted.<ref>[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,790078,00.html “Picketers Picketed,” ''Time'', June 2, 1941]</ref> But on June 20, 1941, Field suddenly called off the organization's “peace picketing” of the White House,<ref>“White House Pickets Stop At 1,029 Hours,” ''Washington Post'', June 22, 1941</ref> reversing himself to demand immediate U.S. war on Germany.<ref>[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849366,00.html "Purely for Peace," ''Time'', July 14, 1941]</ref> The following day, Germany invaded the Soviet Union.