Word: interventionist
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Apparently convinced-by what, no man knew-collegians last week for the most part were more interventionist than their elders. Most spectacular switch was by students in the arch-isolationist Big Three...
Yale. Last year's arch-isolationist News is still isolationist under holdover Chairman William Ford (who succeeded Kingman Brewster). But next January the News will switch; its next chairman will be Sterling Tomkins Jr., ardent interventionist...
America is committed to the destruction of Nazidom, to a policy of victory though the heavens fall. With each new move of the Administration, more ground slides out from under the non-interventionist cause. As the country rapidly nears a definite plump on the belligerent side of the fence, the desperate importance of a final triumph becomes clearer and clearer, and gigantic productive and military efforts become a crusade. But neither the beating of war's drums nor the grim, inevitable prospect of years of blood and sacrifice should be allowed to destroy Uncle Sam's sense of proportion...
With only a few exceptions, the Congressmen had been shocked by the state of opinion in their districts. Interventionist districts were now red-hot; Middle-Road districts were now Interventionist; Isolationist districts were now at least Middle-of-the-Road. One Congressman after another said the same thing: "They're way ahead of me back home." Southern members who had voted for extension of the draft found themselves local heroes; Congressmen who had voted for draft extension with their fingers crossed found they had done the right thing after...
This latest in the line of "interventionist" plays put out by the Playwrights' Company is extremely disappointing. Maxwell Anderson has done better than "Candle in the Wind"--far, far better...