Under the dishonest slogan of anti-fascism, he [President Roosevelt] prepares the red-baiting, union-busting, alien-hunting, anti-Negro, anti-Semitic Jingoistic road to fascism in America: we accuse him. Turning with cynical calculation on his own lies and false promises, he drags the American people, despite their repeated expressed opposition, closer and closer to open participation in the imperialist slaughter, in which the youth of our country will, if he has his way, join the 1,000 British seamen of the H.M.S. Hood, the 30,000 German bodies floating in the Mediterranean, the bloody and bloated corpses on battle fields the world over, for the greater glory of foreign trade and the brutal oppression of free people at home and abroad: we accuse him. Franklin Demagogue Roosevelt we accuse; tirelessly and until the people hear and understand, we accuse him…. We fight against the involvement of our country in an imperialist war from which the great majority of the American people can derive only misery, suffering, and death. We stubbornly oppose every move of Roosevelt and the war-mongers in this direction, and call on the American people to organize and make vocal their deep and sincere opposition to any program of convoys and an A.E.F.

Keynote speech of Milton Wolff to May 1941 convention of the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, reprinted as Petitioners' Exhibit 98, proceedings held before the Subversive Activities Control Board in the matter of Herbert Browtiell, Attorney General, v. Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, 1954. The Hood was a British ship sunk with a huge loss of life. The reference to the German dead recalls the sinking of German troop transports during the conquest of the Greek islands. Roosevelt was considering plans to provide armed convoys to protect Allied ships taking supplies to Britain, hence the reference to convoys. A.E.F. stands for American Expeditionary Force, the term used for American troops sent to Europe in World War I.