Word: interventionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The focus of world news was not in the U.S. last week. Citizens were beginning to find that not only their country's military frontiers, but its political, social and economic frontiers as well, ranged from North Africa to the Far Pacific. The words "isolation" and "intervention" were both...
Karl Mundt's resolution will very probably never get out of committee; he proposed that the commission be appointed by Cordell Hull, Herbert Hoover and Congress. But it was significant for a broader reason: it was a definite break from the isolationist ranks. Said the man who once opposed...
As Secretary Hull maintains, the thesis behind our diplomacy was of dual nature. One element of American influence was to build up resistance to aggression, while another was to cement the based for a sort of durable peace. Unwittingly, the complete record only outlines the neutralization of one effort by...
Admiral Darlan confirmed the hunch that U.S. Admiral William Daniel Leahy had a good deal to do with the African campaign. As long as a year ago, said Darlan, he and Admiral Leahy-then Ambassador to Vichy, now President Roosevelt's personal Chief of Staff-discussed U.S. intervention in...
On the serious side, however, the survey is searching and thorough Questions range from pre-war attitudes of intervention to the settlement of the post-war world. Even opinions on military strategy are aked for, with one question on the opening of a second front. In the multiple choice answers...