Word: internationalistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
That the vote against crusading internationalism was not a vote for U.S. isolation was particularly clear to those who looked into Wisconsin closely. For in the state Harold Stassen was regarded as an internationalist equal to Willkie ; Tom Dewey was much criticized by isolationists during the campaign for his advocacy of a British-American alliance last September; and finally, much of the Mac-Arthur vote - the stronghold of the isolationists - was cast by people who merely admire the General as a "favorite...