Word: interventionist
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...licensed by the New Deal's FCC, might possibly be surmised to favor interventionist over isolationist organizations in allotting radio time generally. But NBC dug into the record at the request of FCC's Chairman James Lawrence Fly. It showed that on both NBC networks, from Jan. 1 through Oct. 31, 1) interventionists had 68 programs, 77 speakers, 25 hours, 14 minutes; isolationists, 72 programs, 76 speakers, 25 hours, 2 minutes; 2) the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies and the Fight for Freedom Committee together had 14 programs; America First had 14; 3) the average...
...Bishop lose touch with current events after reaching his nineties. A strong interventionist, several of his war speeches were printed in the Boston Transcript last year...
Last week no interventionist Congressman, debating repeal of the Neutrality Act, could believe that Congress would vote for war. But if the U.S. was fighting to defend her honor, as President Roosevelt said, if every schoolchild knew it, if the shooting had started, why could not such a vote be taken? Somewhere between the hard common-sense drama of General Wood and the idealistic quandary of President Roosevelt, most U.S. emotion and attention was centered. General Wood's blunt words did not leave enough room for U.S. reactions to such Nazi blows as the killing of hostages, the speed...
Toughs from the slums getting ready to fight the collegeboys; middlewesterners talking about secession from "that British colony in the East"; Lindbergh haranguing the crowds about "new leadership"; everywhere the lines are being drawn more sharply, and the gap between isolationist and interventionist is steadily and alarmingly widening. Max Lerner, who is usually pretty well up on those things, has estimated that 25 per cent of the people are rabid interventionists, 25 per cent are steadfast isolationists, and 50 per cent are in the middle, but following the main trends of the Roosevelt foreign policy...
...America First Committee has concentrated on its own 25 per cent, using every method, fair and foul, to make them as emotional and intransigent a minority as this country has ever seen, while its interventionist counterparts, the Committee to Defend America, and the Fight For Freedom Committee, have spent the greater part of their energies in swinging their already convinced quarter of the population further and further towards war. There is no reason to believe that America First will abandon its dignifying tactics. If this country is to be saved from civil strife, the interventionists will have to pay more...