Word: internationalistic
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Reporter White's column for United Feature Syndicate will combine, says he, "some commentary, considerable news analysis and, now and then, some straight reporting." His internationalist, Jeffersonian political philosophy puts him only somewhat to the right of Liberal Tom Stokes's views. Yet Texas-born Bill White, who labels himself an "independent," also feels an affinity for the Senate's dominant Southern conservatives, many of whom, e.g., House Speaker Sam Rayburn, Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, he has known since he went to Washington in 1933 to cover Texas affairs for the Associated Press...
Unlike German publishers of the '30s, who through ambition or complaisance became propaganda tools for Hitler, Axel Springer is an outspoken internationalist and firm friend of the West who believes that his mission, in his own words, is to "help the 'other' Germany, the nonmilitant, peaceful Germany of great scientists, great spirits, great minds." He is also untypical of European publishers in having no apparent political ties or ambition...
...Elbridge Gerry, a signer of the Declaration of Independence; after long illness; in Providence. His state's first popularly elected Senator, shy Peter Gerry was a staunch New Deal foe, helped organize the opposition that killed F.D.R.'s 1937 Supreme Court packing bill but, as an internationalist, supported New Deal foreign policies...
...Exemplary Case. The Girard decision brought few all-out editorial huzzas, plenty of jeers. The internationalist-minded Baltimore Sun approved the decision, but blamed U.S. administrative bungling for failure to give Girard full benefit of the status-of-forces agreement. The Hearst New York Journal-American thought that "the basic rights of this American soldier have been violated." New York's tabloid Daily News roared that the Supreme Court, "like Pontius Pilate . . . has washed its hands . . . This stinking affair has disgusted tens of millions of us." The News admonished Congress to get busy with remedial legislation. And Ohio...
...those in Macmillan's audience who remembered the recent despairing warning of that old internationalist Gilbert Murray, in the last days of his life, that the colored races are not ready for leadership of the world but are inheriting it by default, Harold Macmillan was plainly suggesting that empire-minded Tories, to preserve the values they cherish, should become good Europeans...