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1. 2. “The PRINCIPLES of the | America First Committee” of powers, can Successfully attack Us. The United States must build an impregnable defense for we tte Then America. With such a defense no foreign power, ¢ or group re With proper safeguards for the distribution of supplion and a a the maintenance of our neutrality, Americans should, to. . -. . - the limit of their ability, give humanitarian aid to the suffer- a ing and needy people of Hagland and the cocupied ” countries. The cash and carry provisions of the existing Neutrality. Act are essential to American peace and security. Within the limits of that Act Americans may properly aid Great Britain. Aid to her beyond the limitations of the present Neutrality Act would weaken our defense at home, and might well involve us in conflict. We oppose any - change in the law which would permit American vessels to enter the combat zone or which would permit the Ameri- can navy to convoy merchant ships through that zone, as any such course would inevitably Plunge this country into Europe’s war. — - - Americans should and do cherish h the ideals of democracy and abhor dictatorship, but the welfare of one hundred thirty million Americans and the preservation of democ- racy on this continent demand that the United States keep out of foreign wars. Subsidiary Objectives oe To bring together all Americans, regardless of poasthte differences on other matters, who see eye-to-eye on these principles. (This does not include Nazis, Fascists or To vrge Americans to keep their heads amid rising hystoria - in times of crisis. To Brovide sane national leadership for the majority of the American people who want to keep out of the Euro pean war. : . To register this opinion with the ‘President and with Congress. -