Ralph Townsend
✓ Source-basedrisingAmerican author, consul, and political activist (1900-1976)
United StatesLived 1900 to 1976 · aged 75Ralph Townsend was an American writer, consul and political activist noted for his opposition to the entry of the United States into World War II. He served in the foreign service as a consul stationed in Canada and China from 1931 to 1933.
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Townsend often used economic arguments in opposition to confrontation with Japan. This picture, from the pamphlet, There Is No Halfway Neutrality, argues that boycotting raw silk from Japan would mainly harm US clothes-makers.
Townsend argues against interventionism in Asia at a nationally broadcast town hall meeting in Seattle in March 1941About this person
Ralph Townsend was an American writer, consul and political activist noted for his opposition to the entry of the United States into World War II. He served in the foreign service as a consul stationed in Canada and China from 1931 to 1933. Shortly after returning to the United States he came to prominence through his book Ways That Are Dark: The Truth About China, a harsh critique of Chinese culture which became a widely controversial bestseller. Townsend became a prominent advocate of non-interventionism, and in the 1930s and 1940s was well known for his vocal opposition to the Roosevelt administration's foreign policy from a pro-Japanese and pro-neutrality point of view.
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