Word: interventionist
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...people of this country say this to the President, "Give us a logical, coherent, consistent and courageous course to follow-be it 'interventionist' or be it 'isolationist' and we'll follow you through hell and high water, but the present vacillating and unreasoning policies and practices engender in us nothing but the 'defeatist' and 'apathetic' attitudes which your followers in Washington publicly deplore. We'll follow-will you lead?" ROBERT LEIGHTON...
...continued by saying that although she was an interventionist she still thought that "the very concept of war--profiting by others' troubles--is completely immoral. It's the immorality of being tickled to death seeing someone mutilated. After all in the worst Harvard-Yale fray no Harvard rooter gets up and cheers when a Yale man gets kicked in the groin. But that's exactly the attitude war breeds. I'm convinced that we in the United States have a great opportunity to take some of the stigma away from the war by doing something decent at the same time...
...costly lend-lease supplies are going to the bottom of the Atlantic." This is obviously based on a rumor quite common now--one neither confirmed nor denied by the administration--which states that 40 per cent of American aid has been sunk. This was the basis for the interventionist placard carried before the peace meeting of a few weeks ago stating that "Convoys Mean Victory." What the bearer of this placard meant was that convoys mean war and war means some kind of victory--maybe...
...anti-war camp. The ranks of the faithful have been serried by the honeyed arguments which present the War To Come as an exciting adventure. The roscate prospect of a quick and decisive victory over Japan and a paralysis of Germany by a painless conquest has made a good interventionist out of many a former advocate of peace...
...interventionist stand depends upon no such narrow view as that which Strategy of the Americas attempts to refute. It does not necessarily claim that the United States will be open to military invasion once Hitler wins, nor even that we will be cut off from the materials essential to a sound defense. It is the larger issues, the questions of economic well-being, of political unity in the face of a victorious Nazism which must weigh the scales of reasoned judgment. It may be perfectly possible, as the authors claim, to make our Hemisphere an impregnable fortress...