American Decades
The Debate over Isolation
"Concerted Action against the Fascist States"
Speech [excerpted from a debate]
By: Frederick J. Libby
Date: May 24, 1938
Source: Libby, Frederick J. "Concerted Action against the Fascist States." In Johnson, Julia E., ed. The Reference Shelf. Vol. 12, no. 6, United States Foreign Policy: Isolation or Alliance. New York: H. W. Wilson, 1938, 69–73.
About the Author: Frederick J. Libby was a leading American pacifist and executive secretary of the National Council for the Prevention of War. His experience with the American Friends Service Committee during and immediately after World War I (1914–1918) convinced him to spend the rest of his life working to promote peace.
Address Before the Bar Association of Tennesee on the Spirit of International Law, June 3, 1938
Speech
By: Cordell Hull
Date: June 3,...
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1930's Government and Politics Primary Sources
- "The Importance of the Preservation of Self-help and of the Responsibility of Individual Generosity as Opposed to Deteriorating Effects of Governmental Appropriations"
- The Proceedings and Transactions of a Conference of the Mayors of the State of Michigan
- Press Statements and Related Correspondence on the Use of Troops to Control the So-called Bonus Marchers
- Campaign Speech at Madison Square Garden, New York City
- "On the Purposes and Foundations of the Recovery Program"
- Letter to Major General Stuart Heintzelman
- "American Fascism in Embryo"
- "Carry Out the Command of the Lord"
- Harry Hopkins Press Conference, February 16, 1934
- "Federal Emergency Relief"
- Old Age Revolving Pensions
- "On Social Security"
- "What's the Matter with Congress?"
- "I Have Seen War.…I Hate War"
- "Hemingway Reports Spain"
- The Debate over Isolation
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
The 1930's: Primary Sources
