"It is not difficult to understand why Jewish people desire the overthrow of Nazi Germany... No person with a sense of dignity of mankind can condone the persecution of the Jewish race in Germany. But no person of honesty and vision can look on their pro-war policy here today without seeing the dangers involved in such a policy, both for us and for them... Instead of agitating for war, the Jewish groups in this country should be opposing it in every possible way, for they will be among the first to feel its consequences. Tolerance is a virtue that depends upon peace and strength. History shows us that it cannot survive war and devastation. A few far- sighted Jewish people realize this, and stand opposed to intervention. But the majority still do not. Their greatest danger to this country lies in their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio, and our Government.
I am not attacking either the Jewish or the British people. Both races, I admire, but I am saying that the leaders of both the British and the Jewish races, for reasons which are as understandable form their viewpoint as they are inadvisable from ours, for reasons which are not American, wish to involve us in the war. . . We cannot allow the natural passions and prejudices of other people to lead our country to destruction."
- Lindbergh addressing America First Committee in Des Moines