ROBERT E. SHERWOOD
(Robert Emmet Sherwood)
This was the earliest version of a variant of the great WWII propaganda phrase, “Arsenal of Democracy”. See --{624746} and {624747} for quotations related to this famous phrase.
Both of these famous Americans were admirers of Nazi Germany and Adolf Hitler. They both accepted medals from the German dictator. And both of them were apologists for German aggression and urged the United States not to side with England and to stay neutral in the War. The next year Germany declared war on the United States.
The Neutrality Acts of the 1930s See {642389} for one of the negative effects of American isolation and the of the Neutrality Acts of the 1930s
Although obvious oversimplifications, these were key strategic elements of these Presidential campaigns.
Robert Emmet Sherwood was an American playwright and screenwriter.