America First Committee The American First Committee was an
"isolationist" organization that opposed United States
involvement in World War II. It was highly visible in 1940-41,
but failed to stop President Franklin D. Roosevelt from forming
an informal alliance with Britain,, or stop Congress from
passing legislation to aid Britain and Russia fight Nazi
Germany. It concentrated almost exclusively on Europe; most
members favored a hard line against Japan, even at the cost of
war. The committee collapsed after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor
on December 7, 1941. It had been thoroughly discredited and most
of the activists reversed positions. Interventionists for years
attacked their opponents as "America Firsters". In recent years
Pat Buchanan has supported a new political party, the America
First Party, that is organized in several states. Critics of
Buchanan, who favors non-interventionism in foreign policy, have
said that he has justified anti-semitism or Naziism in so doing.
Some historians have rejected his i