Word: foreignism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Roosevelt well knows, lasts about five minutes in Washington-particularly if 17 Senators are involved. Newspapers the world over soon headlined that Franklin Roosevelt had placed the U. S. "frontier" or "first line of defense" in France. As Chief Executive he had laid down for the Senators a foreign policy aligning the U. S. more strongly than ever behind France and England. As Commander in Chief he had declared his determination to back those democracies for defensive war by every means short of actual manpower...
Basic question the U. S. press immediately asked was: had this Democratic President made any commitments comparable to the moral ones assumed by the last Democratic President with regard to "foreign entanglements"? To his full height in the Senate rose young Henry Cabot Lodge, grandson and namesake of one of the men who drove Woodrow Wilson wild on the League of Nations issue, to ask the Secretary of the Treasury for a full accounting of the $2,000,000,000 Stabilization Fund, to see if any financial commitments were implied by the President's program. Senator Lodge...
Worse for Franklin Roosevelt than even the headlines in U. S. newspapers about his "new" foreign commitments was a speech in Chicago by the G.O. P.'s one living ex-President, Herbert Hoover. Said he: ". . . We are deluged with talk of war. . . . Amid these agitations President Roosevelt has now announced a new departure in foreign policies. . . . Our foreign policies in these major dimensions must be determined by the American people and the Congress, not by the President alone...
...started the depopularizing of Woodrow Wilson's Treaty of Versailles and League of Nations Covenant before they reached the Senate. No charge could have been more unjust or illegal.* Yet this week, as the Senate geared itself for high-powered, full-dress debate on Franklin Roosevelt's foreign policy, "secrecy" faced Franklin Roosevelt as a charge and an issue likely to impede his National Defense program and other important legislation. No such giants of debate as Woodrow Wilson faced loomed against him. Instead of Henry Cabot Lodge I, Philander Knox and Missouri's irreconcilable, tigerish Jim Reed...
...emergence of foreign policy as a burning national concern. On this Robert Rice Reynolds considers himself an expert because he has toured the world extensively (efficiently sending postcards to his voters). His ambition to get on the Foreign Relations Committee was great enough so that South Carolina's Jimmy Byrnes, by fixing it, lured his vote away from the Administration's higher figure...