Word: anti-british
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...that seaborne vision was having heavy weather. Anti-British jokes had cropped up again, anti-British criticisms crept even into friendly editorials, were ridden hard by Anglophobes, spurred on by Axis propaganda. Many a U.S. citizen thought the closest U.S. ally a failure...
...Fish (from Franklin Roosevelt's district) met Trooper Hill 25 years ago on the battlefields of France. They have been thick ever since. One day last autumn a grand jury, investigating the activities of Nazi agents in the U.S., sent its agents to the Washington headquarters of an anti-British organization, the Islands For War Debts Committee, to seize eight bags of franked Congressional mail containing speeches by isolationist members of Congress. They found that George Hill had sent a House truck for the mail before they got there, had whisked it away to Ham Fish's storeroom...
...spot as Minister of Justice in World War II, he was accused of Fascist methods in enforcing the occasionally unfathomable Defense of Canada regulations. Because he spoke out for a declaration of war and strong support to Britain, rabidly anti-British groups in Quebec called him "Judas Lapointe." Tory imperialists claimed that he and Mackenzie King purposely slowed up the war effort. But when the chips were down in 1940, Ernest Lapointe's threat to resign if Quebec did not back the Government's war policy did more than anything else to drive the antiwar Nationale (Lapointe called...
Italy last week acquired the services of one of the wiliest anti-British leaders of the Moslem world. Haj Amin El-Husseini, exiled Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, specializes in spectacular escapes from the wrath of the British Empire, whose peace he has been disturbing for the past 21 years...
...Catholic form yet devised . . . can declare in utter good faith that a government erected on the Leonine [Leo XIII] principles would be a more perfect instrument." In practice that policy means a complex reconciling of Church policy with U.S. foreign policy, of weighting loyalty to the Government with the anti-British attitude of many Irish and German Catholics and the anti-Communist attitude of the Church...