Details

Subject(s)

• Corporations, Nonprofit—United States—20th century [Browse]
• Lend-lease operations (1941-1945) [Browse]
• Labor unions and foreign policy—United States—20th century [Browse]
• World War, 1939-1945—Economic aspects [Browse]
• World War, 1939-1945—Propaganda [Browse]
• World War, 1939 -1945—United States—Public opinion [Browse]
• World War, 1939 -1945—War work—United States [Browse]
• United States—Foreign relations—1933-1945 [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Correspondence [Browse]
• Daily reports [Browse]
• Publications [Browse]
• Records [Browse]

Compiled/​Created

1940-1942

Restrictions note

Collection is open for research.

Summary note

• The Records of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies (CDAAA) document the Committee to Defend America from its inception in May 1940 to its official dissolution in October 1942. In January, 1942 CDAAA merged with the Council for Democracy to form Citizens for Victory: To Win the War, To Win the Peace. The Committee to Defend America was a propaganda organization that worked to persuade the American public that the United States should supply the Allies with as much material and financial aid as possible in order to keep the United States out of the war. During its year and a half tenure the Committee successfully garnered support from across the country and from other parts of the world.
• Consists of files relating to the political, educational, and fund-raising activities of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies. Included are 1) correspondence (such as that of Roger S. Greene, associate director of the Committee), daily reports, and subject files of the Committee’s administrative management division at its national headquarters office in New York City; 2) executive committee correspondence and minutes; 3) state and local chapters material--correspondence, field representatives files, chapter records; 4) records of college, labor, and women’s divisions; 5) fund-raising files from the Committee’s NYC headquarters; and 6) published materials put out by the Committee, such as cartoons, Christmas cards, newsletters, pamphlets, press releases, radio transcripts, and speeches. Other Committee members who figure prominently in the collection are Ernest W. Gibson, national director until the spring of 1941; Hugh Moore, chairman of the executive committee; Frederick C. McKee, treasurer; and Robert F. Duncan, assistant to the national director.

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