Word: interventionists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that had cloaked the preliminary stages of the debate in an obscure haze of words-neutrality, nonbelligerency, isolation, interventionist, appeaser, warmonger-was blowing away. The almosts, the yes-buts, the cross-cut perplexities were vanishing. The question was becoming a flat question: Yes or No-as it would be presented to Congress...
...stove. There was immediate general agreement that the bill would pass-with perhaps slight modification-by overwhelming majorities, in from three to six weeks. The only way to defeat a bill the President really wants has been a coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats. Now the Southern Democrats are interventionist almost to a man and Republicans are hopelessly split. Isolationist Senators Wheeler, Taft, Nye and Clark might filibuster; House isolationists might balk-but two men held all the cards this week: 1) prognathous, gnomish Representative Sol Bloom of New York, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee; 2) austere, pompous...
...discussion most faulty and misleading. It is true that Waldrop states that Professor Fay has "backed water" in his attitude toward this present war as against the first World War, but I fail to find anywhere in the article a statement that Professor Fay is "insincere in supporting an interventionist stand today...
Entitled "Harvard's Ku Klux," a feature by Franck C. Waldrop which appeared recently in the Washington "Star-Times," accuses the Harvard faculty of taking advantage of its position in order to force interventionist ideas upon young instructors and students...
...accuses Sidney B. Fay '96, professor of History and author of the "Origins of the World War," of back tracking and being insincere in supporting an interventionist stand today. Waldrop says he was cowered into changing his mind about the war by "intellectual terrorism" at Harvard...