Word: foreignism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which may be used for war, crime and other similar purposes should be kept secret, not only from the totalitarian countries but from all, except the government of this country and a limited circle of socially and morally sound specialists. They should be kept also secret from the allied foreign powers because today's friends may easily become tomorrow's enemies...
Since Hitler began persecuting Jews and Japanese began killing Chinese, millions of peaceful people have been fighting the losers' battles with boycotts. Fortnight ago U. S. Department of Commerce breakdowns of 1938 foreign trade figures measured the boycotts' success. Last week, to stimulate revival of trade, Germany set up a German-American Chamber of Commerce of the Pacific Coast in San Francisco; and in Chicago the German Consul General for the Midwest revealed he was trying to barter German machinery, harmonicas, barbed wire for several hundred thousand tons of U. S. lard...
Granting the general decline in U. S. foreign trade, disrupting effects of war and exchange restrictions, boycotters nevertheless claim much credit for these whopping trade losses. That credit must be divided between 1) the uncoordinated efforts of millions of individual shoppers, and 2) the organized activity that stems chiefly from two groups: the Joint Boycott Council (of the American Jewish Congress and Jewish Labor Committee) and the American Boycott Against Aggressor Nations (onetime Committee for a Boycott Against Japanese Aggression...
...boycotters such facts are reason for gloating. Not to be overlooked, however, is the fact that foreign trade is a give-&-take affair. Last week, for example, a spokesman for the new German-American Chamber of Commerce of the Pacific Coast pointed out that German purchases of U. S. dried prunes and apricots had dwindled from 33% of the total exported in 1929 to 8.8% in 1937. And the lard dickerings demonstrated how U. S. farmers are suffering from the drop in German trade. In pre-Hitler years Germany often bought as much as 30%, of U. S. lard exports...
WASHINGTON--Long-delayed isolationist attacks on President Roosevelt's foreign policy may begin tomorrow when the Military Expansion Bill, increasing Army Air Corps strength to 6000 planes reaches the Senate floor for debate...