America: The Fed Up Superpower Goes On Strike

ONE night during the long, hot Washington summer of 1940, as Americans debated how to handle the war in Europe, Senator Claude Pepper of Florida took a call from the police, asking what to do with his effigy. After a momentâ??s bafflement, Mr Pepper learned that a life-size dummy bearing his name had been hanged from an oak tree in front of the Senate, before being dragged around Capitol Hill behind a car. The lynch-mob was made up of angry ladies in hats: members of an isolationist mothersâ?? movement, incensed by his calls for young men to receive compulsory military training.