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Wisconsin's prewar isolationist Bob La Follette wrote in his official party paper, The Progressive: "It is time to speak up. To speak up with an American peace program which would capture the imagination and win the hearts of people everywhere. But instead of speaking up, President Roosevelt and...
Having agreed on this single point, each Senator rapidly retired to his own side of the ideological street. Bob La Follette took his stand as a hardheaded U.S. nationalist whose Midwest idealism has made him suspicious of foreign entanglements. Joe Ball, whose Midwest idealism has fired him with the vision...
"Tiny Squeak." Senator La Follette's chief complaint against U.S. foreign policy: "Our failure to step forward with an American democratic alternative" to British imperialism and Russian power politics. Said he: "The people wonder if they are to be committed now to enforce a peace settlement which violates American...
Bob La Follette also asked what is to become of American-built air bases; of the vast American merchant marine. Then he argued that while U.S. troops are in the field, the U.S. must "use our bargaining power to wring democratic, anti-imperialistic concessions from our allies." People all over...
Prewar isolationists like Wisconsin's Progressive Senator Bob LaFollette sniffed suspiciously at the Great Blueprint, as if it were a new League of Nations in a slick disguise. Senator Bob's tight grip on his own Progressive Party may be slipping* but in Washington he is still a...