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...with its domestic policy there is a pronounced degree of me-firstism in the Reaganite Foreign polices, of the feeling that is acceptable-if not preferable-that America solve the problems of the world itself. On many foreign policy fronts, from Central America to East West relations, one notices a propensity for going at it alone, and for refusing the patience needed to see through our problems with our allies. The most visible manifestation of this attitude at home is the misguided "New Patriotism," fully encouraged by the Administration, whereby Americans are mistaking pride in their country for an orgiastic...
...Missouri's rabble-rousing Dewey Short who created the biggest commotion. Republican Short, who as late as Nov. 25 had hailed the Truman foreign-aid program as "a glorious opportunity," suddenly reverted to his old America-Firstism. One day he rose up cherry-red with anger and cried: "There are times when one must be cruel to be kind. . . . The more you give people, the more they will curse you for not giving them more. Instead of bleeding ourselves white, we had better keep ourselves strong...
Model "X." Any lingering America-Firstism in Henry Ford's soul was bombed away at Pearl Harbor. Like any good Midwesterner, Henry Ford hit the roof when the U.S. was attacked. He called in his executives and said (weeks before the new War Production Board ordered auto production stopped): "We might as well quit making cars now." The same week he piled some of his aides into an automobile, made a tour of the whole Dearborn empire. At each building he discussed what was made there, at each building ordered: "Get a defense job going in there quick...
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