Word: internationalist
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Internationally minded Senator Joe Ball of Minnesota complained of its "rubber words"; New Jersey's Willkieite Governor Walter E. Edge demanded it be made much stronger-meaning more internationalist. The sharpest criticism came from ex-Candidate Wendell Willkie. He compared the foreign-policy plank to the one on which Warren Harding ran in 1920: "The Republicans won the election of 1920. A Republican President, claiming that he in no way repudiated the Party's platform, immediately after the election announced that the League of Nations was dead. A Republican President elected under the proposed platform of 1944 could...
Even such admirers of the President's foreign policy as the New York Times admitted that the program was minimal; and to some it seemed as minimal as could be devised without being nationalist, rather than internationalist. Most Americans found the program unexceptionable-what there was of it. And there was nothing in it that most Republican leaders had not already endorsed. But a loud denunciation came from Bridge Expert Ely Culbertson, who has his own, mathematically rigid plan for world peace. Said he: "The plan will prove a bitter disappointment to the internationalists, who are determined that this...
...Said the Tribune: "The President's characteristic maneuver before elections is to announce a policy in accord with the opposition's views." Senator Burton K. Wheeler, Democrat & isolationist, observed, with almost diabolical satisfaction, that the President's plan did not go as far on the internationalist side as the Republican's Mackinac Charter...
That was that. U.S. voters could choose one of two pictures: that the President, a genuine "internationalist," was merely making a bid for some America First votes; or that he had all along been laughing up his sleeve at "internationalism." The Great Blueprint was just the working draft. There were almost certain to be more changes and shifts. In a crucial election year, Franklin Roosevelt was shrewdly working both sides of the street...
...last week, and as a result the Republican Party looked a bit brighter all over the U.S. For bumbling Rufus Holman, 66, was an isolationist, a party hack, a reactionary, a labor baiter. His conqueror, making his first try for political office, was Wayne Lyman Morse, young (43), an internationalist, for two years the most effective member of Franklin Roosevelt's War Labor Board...