editorial pages. But the structure of the 
newspaper betrayed them because you would see 
side-by-side a story from Berlin, a story from Des 
Moines, and a story from China. And these three 
stories together made up a mix in the reader’s 
mind and made internationalists out of Americans 
when the newspaper publishers, and many other 
leading figures in America, wanted to make them 
think of America only. “America First” was actually 
the slogan of a movement that crossed the 
country and “America-First” publishers were 
putting out newspapers which told people not to 
be internationalists while making  them into 
internationalists.