Word: foreignism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more Roman Catholic than Franklin Roosevelt are Britain's Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax who, when they go to Italy this month, are reported planning to visit the Pope and to entertain the Cardinals at the British legation in Vatican City. They know, as does the U. S. State Department, that if the democracies are obliged to set up a bloc to protect their interests from fascist encroachments, the Roman Catholic Church may be a useful ally, not only as a powerful church but as a temporal state with one of the ablest diplomatic corps...
Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew, for 35 years in the U. S. Foreign Service, is rated one of the ablest career diplomats in U. S. employ. For the last seven years he has held down one of the toughest diplomatic assignments which the State Department has to hand out, the post of Ambassador to Japan. No small measure of his success has been the amiable, unostentatious way he has done...
Plant exchanges were made in the year with more than fifty institutions in the United States, and with institutions in twenty-three foreign countries. Thirty investigators from Europe and America came to the herbarium to study...
When President Roosevelt presents Congress with the special message on national defense, asking a mammoth air force of 12,000 planes, increased in army munitions, and more new battleships--not to mention the important and dramatic details--he will be asking for the means of implementing his revitalized foreign policy of resistance to dictatorships. "Implementation" is often merely a convenient euphemism referring to war. And yet, though the fundamental purpose of the new rearmament may be diplomatic and not defensive, it does not follow, as some pacifists and isolationists would have us believe, that the President is leading the country...
...these words would constitute a magnificent understatement. But spoken by him, and addressed to London and Berlin via short wave, they contain far more than appears on the surface. And considered in the light of what has very recently become American public opinion, the President's entire treatment of foreign policy and defense in his annual message to Congress is pregnant with meaning...