Word: interventionist
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...moved into Harvard to investigate supposititious "subversive activities," according to the Christian Science Monitor. This move has obviously been made for the purpose of tarring non-interventionist activities at Harvard with the Communist stick. The Harvard Committee Against Military Intervention has not, of course, been approached, for it is a middle-of-the-road group and represents about three-fourths of the 51 per cent at Harvard who, according to the Crimson poll, are opposed to intervention. We invite the F. B. I. to investigate us--but at the same time we deplore the attempts of the government to terrorize...
Having admitted aluminum's poverty, OPM proceeded to pass the hat for it. In interventionist Richmond, Va. and in isolationist Madison, Wis. (and their counties), it put school children. Boy Scouts, American Legionnaires to work collecting aluminum scrap. This week the experiment ended and OPM waited for the returns to come...
...mankind of the benefit of such a bulwark against the torrent which has for some time been bearing down all before it." These words, from which Earle takes his title, were not uttered in 1941, but in 1803. Even more remarkable, they are not the words of a fervent interventionist, but one of America's most uncompromining pacifists--Thomas Jefferson...
This book cannot fail to be disconcerting to all isolationists, and provides an arsenal of historical munition in favor of the interventionist point of view. Brief though it is, "Against This Torrent" is a forceful argument against "the wave of the future." As a refreshing departure from the recent flood of dollar books that are all form and no substance, this volume should be read by everyone who is interested in the future of our nation...
...with Germany which went beyond the requirements of . . . [the] armistice agreement. This was the least that could be expected of a France which demanded respect for its integrity. ..." If the U.S. no longer felt called upon to respect the integrity of France, there were steps that could be taken. Interventionist Senator Pepper emerged from the White House and declared that the U.S. should seize Dakar and the French possessions in the Caribbean and South America as a measure of hemispheric defense. These, he said, were his own views...