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The Pro-Red Orchestra Starts Tuning Up In the U.S.A., 1941

by James J. Martin


Table of Contents

1. Opinions and Opinion Makers in the U.S.A.

2. Winston Churchill as a Factor Influencing Americans at the Outset, June 1941

3. Initial Reaction of Interventionist Spokesmen and Press to the Soviet Entry into the European War

4. Some Diplomatic and Economic Straws in the Wind

5. The Roosevelt Administration and Press Supporters Lean Toward Aid at the Time of the August 1941 Atlantic Conference

6. The Main Pockets of Resistance to Supporting Stalin

7. American Communists as a Complication in the Soviet Aid Debate

8. Time, Corporate America and "Culture" Contribute to the Confusion

9. New Voices in Behalf of Assistance to Stalin, at Home and Abroad

10. Continued Annoyance from Influential Anti-Soviet Liberal Personalities, While Pro-Aid Forces Gain in Academe

11. October, 1941 Polls Register a Gain in Aid-to-Stalin Sentiment

12. President Roosevelt Creates a Diversion Over the Religious Issue

13. Diplomatic Moves Toward Vastly Increased Military Aid to Stalin

14. Culture, Big Names and the Well-Placed Lend Their Assistance to the Building Pro-Soviet Bandwagon

15. Echoes of the Religious Dust Up Reverberate

16. British Propaganda Diversions, and Related American Anglophile Support for the Growing Enhancement of Stalin

17. Fellow Travelers Domestic and Foreign Add Their Bit

18. Vote of No Confidence from the Saturday Evening Post/Some Practical Consequences of Soviet Aid Get Aired

19. The Origins of "Second Front" Talk in the West, and the Impact of Soviet Aid Production on American Labor and Business/ Businessmen

20. Pearl Harbor Forces a Temporary Diversion in the Overall Drive to Assist the Soviet Union

21. Reactions and Second-Guessing Following Stalin's Avoidance of Involvement in the War Against Japan

22. The Dimensions of the Propaganda War as Waged by the Authors and Publishers

23. The Ante Rises After Pearl Harbor on Production and Appropriations for Stalin/Davies' Book Mission to Moscow Sets the Tone on the Adulation of Soviet Communism for the Rest of the War

Notes, 1-25

Notes, 26-100

Notes, 101-211



Copyright 1985 by James J. Martin.  This work appeared in The Journal of Historical Review, Vol. Six, No. 3, Fall 1985.  Institute for Historical Review.