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hildiea tide a9 that they arm America before aiding Britain and also seaunts® te audience to send in anything froa dines to dollars to the ancrice . _ First Comaittce, Board of Trade Building, Cteage, Dilinoie. . 2 * ME a soafidenttal ‘Anformant ‘tated that" “the america First te He may Committee was started by General Wood in cooperation with the other — menbers af the Committees and that although the Comaittee's viewpoints _ in eonnection with the United States? present policy in foreign affairs is different from that of the administration, he is of the epinien that the Comittee originally had a few persons is it who were what he terned "left-wingers® and according te hia are not te bere considered Commnistie. mae L « woes x : On December 18, 1940, the america First Coamittee sponsored 7 a rally in Orchestra Hall, Chicago, Lilinois, at which relly 3500 b7 ea iii i iisinan thousand were turned a ‘ormation receiv roa @ confiden source, rev that on January 16 the office of the America First Committee was * opened on Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, and it was observed that the autozobile of Dr. Georg Gyssling, German Consul was parked In front of the building during that day. The informant related that thie car had never been seen there previously and has not been seen there since that tins. The Aserica First Committee has published an enoraonus amount of propagands literature concerning the alas of the Caa- mittee and has circulated this literature throughout the Uaited - States. The apparent object of the literature is to crystallise American opinion te prevent the entrance of the Onited States into Zuropean wars and to villify the foreign affaires progran ef President Roosevelt. The numerous pamphlets published by the Committee state that 86% of the people of the United States are opposed to the United States intervening in foreign wars. These peaphlets fail to make any explunztion as to how the figure of 65 was arrived at. This literature also makes an appeal to American mothers to aid tie Comuittee for the jurpoce of preventing | CONFIDENTIAL Pg ! oa