Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies - Revision history

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The [[Committee To Defend America By Aiding The Allies]](CDAAA), also known as the [[William Allen White]] Committee after its nominal chairman, was a front group for [[British Security Coordination]](BSC) in the US in the early years of the Second World War.<ref>Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's, 1999, p.24</ref>

In 1940, the British [[Ministry of Information]] sought a direct telephone link with the Committee, but was dissuaded by the ambassador, [[Philip Kerr|Lord Lothian]] who said:
::It would be most disastrous to the William Allen White Committee were it ever to be established that it was communicating and collaborating with any branch of His Majesty's Government.<ref>Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's, 1999, p.42</ref>

The Committee's offices were at 8 West 40th Street, New York City, which housed a number of other pro-British organisations including the [[League of Nations Association]], [[Sandy Griffith]]'s [[Market Analysts Inc.]] and the [[Nonpartisan Committee to Defeat Hamilton Fish]].<ref>Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's, 1999, p.109</ref>

==Goals==
The Committee's key aims were to ensure the repeal of neutrality laws which impeded the flow of goods to Britain and France, and to ensure that both Republicans and Democrats nominated presidential candidates friendly to the allies.<ref>Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's, 1999, p.42</ref>

==Activities==
The Committee's [[William Allen White News Service]], headed by [[John Balderston]], was based at the [[Rockefeller Center]] in New York, along with [[British Security Coordination]] and a number of other fronts.<ref>Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's, 1999, p.41</ref>

The Committee acted as a BSC cutout in sponsoring propaganda broadcasts on radio station [[WRUL]].<ref>Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's, 1999, p.44</ref> It was also one of a number of British fronts which sponsored opinion polls by the BSC-controlled [[Market Analysts Inc.]]<ref>Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's, 1999, p.78</ref>

==Postwar legacy==
Twelve members of the CDAAA went on to become members of the 1950 [[Committee on the Present Danger]].<ref>Jerry Wayne Sanders, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=K_h5GpTCR5wC&dq=Peddlers+of+Crisis&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=u72o0puvA_&sig=rVw85l99HBp-jeu0tOAxT-t8o3U&hl=en&ei=sXLFScm5C6TJjAfjnu2UCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result#PPA60,M1 Peddlers of Crisis], South End Press, 1983, p60.</ref>

==People==
===Officers===
*[[William Allen White]] - Chairman
*[[Frederick Chadwick McKee]]- Treasurer
===Members===
[[Henry P. Van Dusen]] | [[Lewis W. Douglas]] | [[Clark Eichelberger]] |

==Affiliations==
[[British Security Coordination]]
===Subsidiaries===
*[[William Allen White News Service]]
==Notes==
<references/>

[[Category:British Propaganda]]

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 The [[Committee To Defend America By Aiding The Allies]] (CDAAA), also known as the [[William Allen White]] Committee after its nominal chairman, was a front group for [[British Security Coordination]](BSC) in the US in the early years of the Second World War.<ref>Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's, 1999, p.24</ref>
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−	The [[Committee To Defend America By Aiding The Allies]](CDAAA), also known as the [[William Allen White]] Committee after its nominal chairman, was a front group for [[British Security Coordination]](BSC) in the US in the early years of the Second World War.<ref>Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's, 1999, p.24</ref>	+	The [[Committee To Defend America By Aiding The Allies]] (CDAAA), also known as the [[William Allen White]] Committee after its nominal chairman, was a front group for [[British Security Coordination]](BSC) in the US in the early years of the Second World War.<ref>Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's, 1999, p.24</ref>

	In 1940, the British [[Ministry of Information]] sought a direct telephone link with the Committee, but was dissuaded by the ambassador, [[Philip Henry Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian\|Lord Lothian]] who said:		In 1940, the British [[Ministry of Information]] sought a direct telephone link with the Committee, but was dissuaded by the ambassador, [[Philip Henry Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian\|Lord Lothian]] who said:

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 The [[Committee To Defend America By Aiding The Allies]](CDAAA), also known as the [[William Allen White]] Committee after its nominal chairman, was a front group for [[British Security Coordination]](BSC) in the US in the early years of the Second World War.<ref>Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's, 1999, p.24</ref>
-In 1940, the British [[Ministry of Information]] sought a direct telephone link with the Committee, but was dissuaded by the ambassador, [[Philip Kerr|Lord Lothian]] who said:
+In 1940, the British [[Ministry of Information]] sought a direct telephone link with the Committee, but was dissuaded by the ambassador, [[Philip Henry Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian|Lord Lothian]] who said:
 ::It would be most disastrous to the William Allen White Committee were it ever to be established that it was communicating and collaborating with any branch of His Majesty's Government.<ref>Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's, 1999, p.42</ref>

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 ===Subsidiaries===
 *[[William Allen White News Service]]
 ==Notes==
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 [[Category:British Propaganda]]

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 The Committee's offices were at 8 West 40th Street, New York City, which housed a number of other pro-British organisations including the [[League of Nations Association]], [[Sandy Griffith]]'s [[Market Analysts Inc.]] and the [[Nonpartisan Committee to Defeat Hamilton Fish]].<ref>Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's, 1999, p.109</ref>
 ==Goals==
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 The Committee acted as a BSC cutout in sponsoring propaganda broadcasts on radio station [[WRUL]].<ref>Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's, 1999, p.44</ref> It was also one of a number of British fronts which sponsored opinion polls by the BSC-controlled [[Market Analysts Inc.]]<ref>Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's, 1999, p.78</ref>
 ==Postwar legacy==
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 *[[Frederick Chadwick McKee]]- Treasurer
 ===Members===
-[[Henry P. Van Dusen]] | [[Lewis W. Douglas]] | [[Clark Eichelberger]] |
+[[Henry P. Van Dusen]] | [[Lewis W. Douglas]] | [[Clark Eichelberger]] | [[David Dubinsky]]
 ==Affiliations==

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