Thanks to Pete Earle for this fuller excerpt from a Gen. Smedley Butler speech in October 1939 against Roosevelt’s drive to war, which was cited on the blog: “Now — you Mothers, particularly! The only way you can resist all this war hysteria and beating of tom-toms is by asserting the love you bear your boys. When you listen to some well-worded, some well-delivered war speech, just remember it’s nothing but sound. No amount of sound can make up to you for the loss of your boy. After you’ve heard one of those speeches and your blood’s all hot and … Continue reading Why They Hate the America First Committee