[Ads-l] "Love It or Leave It" antedating

[Mark Mandel]

I love my country, but I hate what certain persons *such as — What d'ye
call him — Thing'em-bob, / and likewise — Never-mind **
and groups are trying to make of it.

* "I've Got a Little List", from *The Mikado*, Gilbert & Sullivan

MAM

On Fri, Jul 19, 2019, 7:54 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> YBQ: Vietnam War
>
> 1940  _Knoxville News-Sentinel
> _
>  (Sept. 29) C-9: While driving through Chattanooga last week we saw a
> sticker on an outline map of the United States, and [sic] contained the
> words, "Love It or Leave It." Good advice, we thought, and wished that a
> number of trouble makers in this country would take the hint.
>
> (Rptd. from the _Clinton [Tenn.] Courier_.)
>
> 1941 Walter Winchell, syn. column in _Augusta [Ga.] Chronicle_ (July 11) 8:
> H. I. Phillips and many other admirers of a billboard slogan in Miami (and
> elsewhere) have testified that it is the best patriotic slogan they have
> ever encountered, to wit: "America - Love It Or Leave It."  From this
> column in the N. Y. Mirror of Sept. 14, 1936: "The U.S.A. would be a better
> place to live in if all the people who didn't like it would leave it - to
> the rest of us who love it!"
>
> 1953 _Cleveland Plain Dealer_ (Mar. 6) 13: Seems to me the government would
> do well to adopt the slogan invented by Cort Middleton of our town:
> "America - Love It Or Leave It!"
>
> 1953  _Springfield [Mass.] Union_ (May 2) 24: State Junior Vice-Commander
> Irving K. Stackpole of Somerville ... noted the reasons for Loyalty Day,
> and emphasized the slogan adopted for treatment of Communists in the United
> States: "America, love It or leave it."
>
> Etc.
>
> JL
>

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