Word: foreignism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Germany's fleet plowed past the cliffs of Dover (see p. 23), Benito Mussolini called Franklin Roosevelt a Messianic meddler and Chairman Key Pittman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee a convivial vociferator* (see p. 26), but still there was no actual fighting in Europe last week. Meanwhile the U. S. people continued the process of making up their collective mind about War (how to provide against its coming) and Peace (how to preserve it). The process consisted, as it must in a democracy, of sound-offs hither & yon, pro & con. Most notable...
...poll of the 22 members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee indicated a scant plurality of five for Senator Pittman's plan to rewrite the law (part of which expires May 1) on a strict cash & carry basis, permitting sales of any U. S. goods to all comers provided they pay in the U. S., transport in their own bottoms...
...Columnist Hugh Johnson wrote: "It occurred to me that for days and even weeks, I have been writing about all this dangerous business in a shrill high pitch. . . . If Hitler can wait a week, I can wait a day or two." To the Senate Foreign Relations Committee he said that the Roosevelt Administration is "a gambling Government. It has shot craps with Destiny . . . at least five times...
...Walter Judd, medical missionary in China, told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that the adoption of Senator Pittman's plan would be disastrous to China. Said he: "Now we are furnishing Japan 50% of its war materials. One-third of the scrap iron that is being hurled upon civilian populations comes from the United States. Trucks, the most decisive single factor in Japanese advances, are supplied...
...these, Governor Baldwin did the best job of speechmaking but Senator Taft got the biggest headlines: in slightly better oratorical form than the night of his Gridiron Dinner fiasco (TIME, April 24), he took the bold political risk of accusing the President of the U. S. of using foreign policy as a curtain for his domestic difficulties. Excerpt...