Word: internationalistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...desire this because although I love England very dearly and consider this lovely island the best spot in the world, I'm a convinced internationalist. I like to feel I'm just a tiny part of universal life which will one day break down all divisions of creed or speech and economic barriers and make mankind one great eternal unit both in life and death...
...would sell all his ore to the U. S.), would help U. S. defense by building a $2,000,000 smelter here, would see the Defense Advisory Commission as soon as he caught his breath. But the Defense Commission, feeling tough, was in no hurry. It knew that ex-Internationalist Patino had nowhere else...
...dickering with Franco that led to last fortnight's settlement was done by lanky Sosthenes Behn. I. T. & T.'s closemouthed, much-traveling president, who lived under fire in Telefonica during part of the Spanish war. Three weeks ago Internationalist Behn saw another hole blasted in his war-scarred income account when the Nazis took over a big I. T. & T. manufacturing plant , in Antwerp, which had exported telephone equipment to Latin America and other I. T. & T. customers abroad. But having made peace with Franco, Phoneman Benn planned to transfer some of the Antwerp business...
...paradoxes pile up: He has less to say and has consistently said less at his press conferences than any Cabinet member; yet with the sole exception of the White House, they are the best-attended in town. A backwoods Congressman, he is the No. 1 U. S. Internationalist. An old-fashioned Jeffersonian free-trader, he has lived and worked at the heart of the centralized, streamlined nationalism of the New Deal for almost seven years-and has changed the New Deal more than it has changed...