Word: internationalistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were a few islands of elegance in the sea of shabbiness: Britain's Anthony Eden; Princess Juliana and her consort, Prince Bernhard; Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, a Central European internationalist who for over two decades had been a tireless crusader for a united Europe. Churchill wore a long frock coat such as most British politicians discarded around World War I. It was just possible that the old trouper was trying to look more "European," a little less John Bull...
...admirers say that he is a political prodigy who has grown up, a seasoned administrator (he was elected governor four years before Dewey), a pre-Pearl Harbor internationalist who has seen postwar Europe and Asia with his own eyes, a man unafraid to speak his mind. They feel that he is a natural leader who understands the problems and has drawn the support of labor, business, and agriculture; a proved vote-getter who was elected as a Republican three times in a state which Roosevelt carried four times; a man who stands the best chance of luring the independent vote...
...Vote. Vandenberg countered by inquiring sarcastically: "Is it the Senator's theory that the majority of the . . . nations on his proposed council could declare a state of war . . . without our consent?" It was. "The Senator," taunted Arthur Vandenberg, "is a little more internationalist than I am." "I suspect I am," said Joe Ball. "I think I probably always have been." Vandenberg fired his last broadside: "It is interesting to be in favor of everything that is not available for us to vote on, and not in favor of anything that...
International and Regional Studies received the brunt of Wednesday's article. According to the Chicago daily, Reds are supplying the "kits" for university education, particularly in this area. Moreover, "Eastern universities, always notorious in the higher education circles of the country for their internationalist sympathies; have placed themselves in the forefront of a movement to introduce regional studies of the world...
...Republican high command was split wide open. Only the majority leader, Maine's feeble old Wallace H. White Jr., was on Vandenberg's side. Arrayed against him were the G.O.P. whip, Nebraska's Kenneth Wherry; Minnesota's Joe Ball, once a red-hot internationalist who now decried efforts to rush the aid bill through as "a combination of blitzkrieg and the old mousetrap play"; and, most important of all, Bob Taft...