Word: interventionists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Connecticut. Republican Senator John A. Danaher will lose some votes because of his non-interventionist record, will gain some because of his good labor record. Campaigning for the maintenance of the American system, he looked like the winner over New Dealing Brien McMahon, 41, ex-Assistant U.S. Attorney General...
...little difference between British Liberals, British Tories and British Laborites; they all believe in the gospel of government interventionism. Hitler, says Mises, must be defeated. But in defeating him, Mises thinks it likely that the whole world will become fascist. Such, to him, is the logical end of "interventionist" economics, whether it bears the label of "liberalism," "progressivism," "New Dealism," or what...
...popular women's club lecturer in the mid-'30s he whacked Mussolini, the Liberty League, Republicans. As an all-out interventionist when World War II began, he told Harvard students that war was not much worse than "crossing the traffic in Harvard Square." In 1940 Dr. Elliott went to Washington as consultant for the National Defense Advisory Commission; the next year he became OPM's raw materials expert, loudly urged stockpiling of tin, rubber, etc. He rightly predicted that the U.S. might soon be cut off by Japan from its chief supply sources. Surviving the transmutation...
...Charles A. Lindbergh, shed light on this issue. In a letter to the Herald Tribune, he quoted a telegram General MacArthur sent from Manila in 1940 to William Allen White's Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies. Said General MacArthur, at the height of the interventionist -isolationist debate: "You have asked my military opinion as to whether the time has come for America to give continued and further aid to England in the fight for civilization. The history of failure in war can almost be summed up in two words, 'too late'. . . . The greatest strategical...
...TIME (March 20) you state that "the New Republic, non-interventionist until a few months before Pearl Harbor, shifted to reflect the views of its owner, Mrs. Leonard K. Elmhirst. U.S.-born, she has become a British citizen...