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Introduction

  1.  Wayne S. Cole, America First: The Battle against Intervention (New York: Octagon Books, 1971), 97–102.

  2.  “Lindbergh Sees a ‘Plot’ for War,” New York Times, September 12, 1941, 2.

  3.  “Lindbergh Sees a ‘Plot’ for War,” 2; “3 Groups Press U.S. to War, Lindbergh Says,” Washington Post, September 12, 1941, 13.

  4.  “Lindbergh Address Condemned by Mayor,” New York Times, September 19, 1941, 12.

  5.  “Assail Lindbergh for Iowa Speech,” New York Times, September 13, 1941, 1.

  6.  “Senate Movie Probe to Call Charlie Chaplin,” Washington Post, September 14, 1941, 7.

  7.  “Dewey Denounces Lindbergh’s Talk,” New York Times, September 15, 1941, 2.

  8.  Cole, America First, 152.

  9.  “The Un-American Way,” New York Times, September 26, 1941, 22.

  10.  Cole, America First, 119.

  11.  Cole, America First, 121.

  12.  Gallup Organization, Gallup Poll (AIPO), June 1938 [survey question]. USGALLUP.38-126.QB05. Gallup Organization [producer]. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, iPOLL [distributor]; Gallup Organization. Gallup Poll (AIPO), January 1939 [survey question]. USGALLUP.39-145.QAB11. Gallup Organization [producer]. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, iPOLL [distributor].

  13.  Gallup Organization, Gallup Poll (AIPO), March 1937 [survey question]. USGALLUP.37-75.Q04B. Gallup Organization [producer]. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, iPOLL [distributor].

  14.  Gallup Organization, Gallup Poll, August 1940 [survey question]. USGALLUP.091540.RK03A. Gallup Organization [producer]. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, iPOLL [distributor].

  15. Letter from Lothian to Sir Edward Peacock, April 5, 1940, GD 40/17/404/146-7, 11th Marquess of Lothian Papers, National Archives of Scotland, Edinburgh.

  16.  Roper Organization. Roper Commercial Survey, December 1940 [survey question]. USROPER.RCOM40-011.Q10A. Roper Organization [producer]. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, iPOLL [distributor].

  17.  Gallup Organization, Gallup Poll (AIPO), January 1941 [survey question]. USGALLUP.41-228.QT07. Gallup Organization [producer]. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, iPOLL [distributor].

  18.  Letter from Lothian to Leo Amery, January 9, 1940, GD 40/17/398, 11th Marquess of Lothian Papers.

  19. Fortune: Roper/Fortune Survey, February 1941 [survey question]. USROPER.41-025.Q09. Roper Organization [producer]. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, iPOLL [distributor].

  20.  Lord Lloyd to Dolobran to Lady Colefax regarding the possibility of meeting influential columnist Walter Lippmann, June 7, 1939, GLLD 19/10, Lord Lloyd of Dolobran Papers, Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge.

  21.  Letter from Lothian to R. H. Brand, June 25, 1940, p. 1, GD 40/17/399, 11th Marquess of Lothian Papers.

  22.  Letter from Lothian to R. H. Brand, June 25, 1940, p. 3.

  23.  David Lawrence, Diary of a Washington Correspondent (New York: H.C. Kinsey & Company, Inc., 1942), 20.

  24.  Lawrence, 21.

  25.  “Refu-Jews Go Back” song sheet, box 15, file 21, Martin Dies Papers, Sam Houston Regional Library and Research Center, Liberty, Texas.

  26.  Letter from Lothian to R. H. Brand, June 25, 1940, p. 3.

  27.  “Wallace Defines ‘American Fascism,’” New York Times, April 9, 1944, SM34.

  28.  Ernst Hanfstaengl, Hitler: The Missing Years (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1957), 23–26.

  29.  Hanfstaengl, Hitler, 40–41.

  30.  Adolf Hitler, Hitler’s Table Talk 1941–1944: His Private Conversations, translated by Norman Cameron and R. H. Stevens, 3d ed. (London: Phoenix, 2000), 188.

  31.  Memorandum to Saint, Amzon for AB/24; subject: Heribert von Strempel; References: AMZO 25267, January 23, 1946, file 9, pp. 1–2, Strempel, Heribert von, CIA CREST database.

  32.  Jeffery, 255, 438.

  33.  Gabler, 291; Jeffery, 438–41. See also Walter Winchell files, FBI Vault.

  34.  Francis MacDonnell, Insidious Foes: The Axis Fifth Column and the American Home Front (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), 163–64.

  35.  Jeffery, 439.

  36.  MacDonnell, 171–72.

  37.  Cf. Lynne Olson, Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America’s Fight over World War II, 19391941, 1st ed. (New York: Random House, 2013), 339–40.

  38.  Olson, 338.

  39.  Olson, 339–40; Jeffery, 450–51.

  40.  Cf. Olson, 339.

  41.  William Gellermann, Martin Dies (New York: John Day Company, 1944), 3.

  42. Letter from Dies to A. J. Sabath, September 26, 1938, box 15, HUAC Official Correspondence 1938–1940, Martin Dies Jr. Papers.

  43.  Letter from Dies to A. D. Covin, September 7, 1938, box 15, file 6, Martin Dies Papers.

  44.  Gallup Organization, Gallup Poll (AIPO), February 1939 [survey question]. USGALLUP.39-148. QB05B. Gallup Organization [producer]. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, iPOLL [distributor].

  45.  Dies speech on “We the People” program, August 22, 1939, box 90, file 7, Martin Dies Papers.

  46.  Robbie Gramer, “Why Mike Flynn Could Be in Trouble—Again,” Foreign Policy, March 9, 2017, http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/03/09/why-mike-flynn-could-be-in-trouble-again-lobbying-disclosure-turkey-government-trump-struggling-to-drain-the-swamp/; “Paul Manafort to Register as a Foreign Agent over Past Lobbying Work,” Guardian, April 12, 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/12/paul-manafort-foreign-agent-trump-russia.

  47.  Rosie Gray, “How the Manafort Indictment Gave Bite to a Toothless Law,” Atlantic, October 30, 2017, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/10/how-the-manafort-indictment-gave-bite-to-a-toothless-law/544448/.

  48.  Anthony Badger, New Deal/New South: An Anthony J. Badger Reader (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2007), 1–3, 24–25.

  49.  Bruce M. Russett, No Clear and Present Danger: A Skeptical View of the United States Entry into World War II, Harper Torchbooks (New York: Harper & Row, 1972), 42–43.