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= fashingtom Times Herald for Nay 26, 1941, reported that the Anerioa Firs Commi $$ Sogether with the Conalttes Ageinat Var and the Eeep Aserica Cat of Var Congress had sade plans for a i three-day rally commencing May 30, 1941, fhe tvo latter greupe are reported to contaia a auader of Socialists fa Qhoir ranks, (200- 10689- Information received oa Ray 2, 1941, reveals thet tnited German socletios held a mecting at the New York Tara Hall at which Sine the meeting was addressed by Dr. Fleischman, a mexber of the America First Committee, (61-9879-268) The aetivity af the Ameries Me. ite peak during the period vhen it exerted ite complete effert $e the end of blocking the Lend Lease Bill sponsored ty the odainistration, Fhousands of pleces of literature were distributeds aumercus meetings were held in the metropolitan areas end the peopie all ever the nation were incited to petition their astionsl , Fepresentatives to Bleck the passage ef this legisistion. (100-4712-16) vo of the Largest seotings sponsored w this Conaittes during that period were held at New York City on Hay 23, 194), end Philedelphia, Pennsylvania on Kay 29, 1941, at which meetings approximately 20,000 people attended. Senator Barton Kheeler ef Montana, Charles A, Linddergh, Kathleen Morris and Forman Thomas were the headline speakers at these neetings. The texts of the Speeches Gelivered Were Goncerusd With Geriding the ainiani stration’ foreign polloy, espectally the Lend Lease Bill, which they — * emphatically eritioized as an active step tovards entrance of the United States inte the European coafliet. (100-4712-58-71) fa ae xv