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Originally an interventionist wing of the pacifist Harvard Union, former College liberal group, the insurgent H.L.U. broke away from the larger organization in 1941 during a disagreement over American entry into...
...Ridders' Staats-Zeitung, after one false start, was steadfastly anti-Hitler. (Bernard Ridder, home from a 1933 trip to Berlin, sized up Hitler as "a man of peace.") Long before World War II, the Ridder papers went interventionist, which hurt them in the isolationist Midwest...
...Three Jobs. Descendant of New England farmers and tanners, Conant is a registered Republican, who prefers to keep publicly neutral in political campaigns (he was for Al Smith in 1928); he usually comes out for issues (like an interventionist foreign policy) rather than...
...Snake River country, four hours a night whipping out impassioned prose (Intimations of Eve, Children of God, etc.). But he is never too busy to argue. Five years ago Publisher Margaret Cobb Ailshie (TIME, Aug. 5) let contentious Vardis Fisher argue the case for isolationism in her interventionist Boise Idaho Statesman. Before she knew it, she had a new drawing card...
With World War II, the Patterson & McCormick lines began to converge. The Daily News's breezy, colloquial editorials began to shout against "intervention," and for America First. (Joe's rebellious daughter Alicia Patterson Guggenheim shouted right back in her interventionist tabloid, the Hempstead, L.I. Newsday.) In 1940 Patterson, who often pecked out his editorials for himself, urged the U.S. to "warm up to Japan." The News stopped its appeasing during the war, but for a year it has been giving F.D.R. a posthumous whipping for getting the U.S. into...