Fight For Freedom Committee
The Fight For Freedom Committee was an organisation launched in April 1941 to support US intervention in World War Two.[1] it was claimed as a British front in a report written that year by SOE agent Sydney Morrell.[2]
People
- Carter Glass - Honorary Chairman
- Bishop Henry W. Hobson - Chairman[3]
Executive Committee
Ulric Bell (Committee Chairman) | Ward Cheney | Harold Guinzburg | Conyers Read | James P. Warburg | Henry W. Hobson | Herbert Agar | Allen W. Dulles | Francis Pickens Miller | Henry P. Van Dusen | Katherine Gauss Jackson | Wayne Johnson | Dorothy Overlock | Marshall Field | Mac Kriendler[4]
Policy Committee
Mrs Calvin Coolidge | Herbert Agar | Burke Baker | Laird Bell | Henry B. Cabot | Mary Ellen Chase | Grenville Clarke | James B. Conant | William J. Donovan | Melvyn Douglas | Alen Dulles | Marshall Field | Richard M. Griffith | Harold Guinzburg | J.B.S. Hardman | Pierre Jay | Henry Goddard Leach | Dorothy Overlock | Clarence B. Randall | Conyers Read | Spyros Skouras | Dan Tobin | Henry P. Van Dusen | Sinclair Weeks | Walter White |[5]
Sponsors
Frank L. Rosenblum | A. Philip Randolph | Lousi Adamic | Maxwell Anderson | Edna Ferber | George S. Kaufman | Moss Hart | Russell Crouse | Marquis James | Lewis Mumford | Rex Stout | Van Wyck Brooks | Dorothy Parker | Ebdna St. Vincent Millay | Ethel Barrymore | Edward Arnold | Melvyn Douglas | Helen Gahagan | Peggy Conklin | Dorothy Stickney | Pedro de Cordoba | Ralph Morgan | Douglas Fairbanks | Janet Beecher | Henry Hull | Cass Canfield | Jay Franklin Carter | Robert S. Allen | John Farrar | Nicholas Roosevelt | Freda Kirchwey | Walter Millis | Lowell Thomas | Grenville Clark | C. M. Gile | James Speyer | LLoyd Paul Stryker | Roger Lapham | General John O'Ryan | James Gerard | E. Harold Cluett | Stanley Isaacs | Dorothy Kenyon | Edward S. Jouett | William J. Donovan | James B. Conant | William H. Standley
Notes
- ↑ Mark Lincoln Chadwin, The Hawks of World War II, University of North Carolina Press, 1968, pp.43-65.
- ↑ Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's,1999, pp.23-24.
- ↑ Mark Lincoln Chadwin, The Hawks of World War II, University of North Carolina Press, 1968, p.165.
- ↑ Mark Lincoln Chadwin, The Hawks of World War II, University of North Carolina Press, 1968, p.169.
- ↑ Mark Lincoln Chadwin, The Hawks of World War II, University of North Carolina Press, 1968, p.170.
