Word: foreignism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the country waited to hear an elaboration of the most ominous remark yet by its Chief Executive, Congress pondered that word: War. The conduct of foreign relations is a duty solemnly imposed upon the President by the Constitution. The power to declare war rests solely with the Congress, but the conduct of foreign relations, the thinking and acting that preserves peace or leads up to war, are the President's lawful and awful responsibility. Last week the senior house of Congress began discussion of that specific legal harness for the President which is called the Neutrality Act: whether...
...baiters, however, are not the only ones whose prospects look dark. The future appears exceedingly glum for all hide-bound isolationists. Although a majority of the students are averse to wars, particularly foreign conflicts; they seem quite willing to aid in stopping Hitler. In a word, youth seems ready to take another stabat saving Democracy despite the warnings of Senators Nye and Borah. The shop-worn argument of "splendid isolation" will have to be put on the shelf for some years to come...
Five men not named yesterday will attend Table 3, International Trade, the committee reports. They are Joseph Green, Chief of the Division of Controls, Department of State; Leslie Wheeler, Chief of the Division of Foreign Agriculture; E. McE. Earle of the Institute of Advanced Study; Ray Stevens, Chairman of the Tariff Commission; and Percy Bidwell, Research Professor in the Council of Foreign Relations...
...inviting ourselves" into anything. The alternatives are not isolation and war. For those with eyes to see, the evidence that America cannot be isolated is overwhelmingly convincing. Were it possible to discard the psychological element, the inevitable unncutrality of thinking, it would not be politically possible to crect the foreign trade controls, the internal industrial and agricultural management, and the price fixing, that would be necessary to prevent our economic system from involving us in the conflict. It is not "war mongering," as Hitler and American isolationists insist, for the President to point out this fact. It is enlightened common...
...same time dispatches from Burgos stated that the retirement of foreign "volunteers" would be carried out in accordance with promises to leave at the end of the war, indicating that this would occur after a "victory parade" in Madrid, now scheduled...