Word: internationalistic
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...earlier volumes, Josephus and The Jew of Rome, the nationalist in Josephus succumbed to the internationalist. A young Jewish rebel, he came to recognize the invincibility of Rome, ended the Jewish revolt by proclaiming the Emperor Vespasian as the Messiah. Josephus went to Rome, became a Roman knight and official historian of the Flavian dynasty, spent the rest of his life trying to move Mount Zion and the Capitoline Hill closer together. Result: he was distrusted by the Jews, never accepted by the Romans. But Rome, tolerantly skeptical in religious matters, showed him no official hostility...
...first that Harvard students are completely behind the war effort. Even more heartening than the 78 per cent who thought we were right in going into the war is the 89 per cent who want us to fight it through to the finish. Also encouraging is the definite internationalist bias, evidenced by the 86 per cent who agreed that after the war we shall have to give up some national sovereignty, to cooperate with other nations...
Republican Internationalist. This is something that Republican isolationists have never understood. Henry Stimson belongs to the now almost forgotten tradition of Republican internationalists in which John Hay, Elihu Root, William Howard Taft and Charles Evans Hughes were his predecessors. A large part of his career was in the service of that tradition...
...Clayton, whose Anderson, Clayton & Co. is the world's No. 1 cotton broker; and short, portly Oscar Johnston, No. 1 grower, whose plantation operations in Mississippi-50,000 acres worked by 3,000 farm hands-produce 16,000 bales of cotton a year. Will Clayton is a polished internationalist, a business diplomat who is now a Deputy Loan Administrator for Jesse Jones. Oscar Johnston is rooted in the Delta, a farmer on a vast but local scale. He is the father of the National Cotton Council, a federation of growers, brokers, ginners, warehousemen and crushers which is trying...
Last week Chinese and Japanese, Britons and Germans still spoke to each other in International House. But no Nazis were left there and the House was largely pro-British. In a radio (CBS) "Bull Session" staged by six of its members, Internationalist Lucy Ann Moon Simes (of Wisconsin) explained: "Up until this point what was essentially culture, what was essentially civilizing has never been lost. Rome when she conquered Greece took over much that was best of the Greek civilization.. . . The Nazis' attitude today is the only one which has definitely set out to quell other cultures...