Word: interventionists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...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...