Word: abstentionism
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U.S. and foreign critics alike had been crying for two things: a clear and coherent conception of U.S. foreign policy, and a willingness to define, accept and fulfill U.S. responsibilities abroad. In broad but heartening generalities the President stated such a conception and such a willingness. And in so doing...
Churchill's reproof in the form of an invitation did not sit well in Washington -no better than Stettinius' reproof in the form of abstention had sat in London a week before.
Thus the U.S., starting its fourth year of war, was launched on a new tack in liberated Europe: the doctrine of "abstention" initiated two weeks ago by the U.S. refusal to guarantee Poland's boundaries. However well and democratically meant, however high the motives behind the policy, it was...
Plain citizens were dizzy, trying to figure out the "consistency" of U.S. foreign policy: "expediency" toward Vichy, flirting with Giraud, meddling in Argentina, "abstention" in Poland. Rumania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia.
Between U.S. meddling and abstention, Europeans found ground for revival of their worst fear: that at war's end the U.S. would refuse, as it had 24 years ago, to accept its share of responsibility for the peace.