America First Committee

noun

1. a political pressure group that during 1940–41 urged the U.S. not to oppose fascism in Europe or enter World War II.

Example Sentences

Before the U.S. entered the war the America First Committee was the name of the right-wing isolationist movement and many of its members also happened to be just a little bit taken with that strongman fella from Germany.

From Salon

He wants to be part of the America First Committee and they don't want to touch him, because he's a notorious antisemite.

From Salon

Smith, who was Huey Long's confidant in the 1930s and founded the America First Party in 1944, which was unconnected with the America First Committee.

From Salon

After all, if Trump and his followers had any sense of history, they wouldn’t have revived the “America First” mantle, associated as it is with the isolationist, pre-World War II America First Committee.

From Los Angeles Times

In “Prequel,” Maddow will describe anti-government actions involving a Nazi agent, more than 20 members of Congress and the anti-Semitic America First Committee that led to a 1944 sedition trial, which ended in a mistrial.

From Seattle Times