Word: interventionists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stronger talk on the shortage came from Florida's Bishop Joseph Patrick Hurley, most out-&-out pre-Pearl Harbor interventionist in the U.S. hierarchy. He said the shortage had caused "the greatest leakage which the Church in America has suffered." He did not blame the priests, but accused some of his fellow Bishops in the North of "unwillingness . . . to disturb existing organizations; a persistent inability to face facts; a tendency . . . to engage in negative criticism rather than in constructive collaboration...
...views on airpower, his recent European experiences, offered to put him on the air. Lindbergh was a national sensation. Lewis was "delighted. . . . It meant a scoop for a young guy." He has since objected mightily to being called an isolationist, but is proud of his record as a non-interventionist: "I was just yelling for a little more time, and I got it." Some of his critics think they hear echoes of this attitude of mind in Lewis' recent outcry against the "fundamental unsoundness" of canned-goods rationing ("Nothing will do but that we try the same thing immediately...
Under Lend-Lease's bridge of ships, oceans of water had passed in two years. In the spring of 1941 the Lend-Lease Act produced one of the bitterest wrangles of the isolationist-interventionist debate. Last week Congress got ready to renew the Act in an atmosphere of love & kisses...
...individualists, is likely to reassure individualists, here & abroad, that plans for world cooperation will not be twisted into some strange new socialistic way of life. It should permit domestic issues to be decided on their own merits, without reference to the old emotion-charged tags of "isolationist" or "interventionist...
Jeffers has been an interventionist since 1939. In 1940 he wavered between Franklin Roosevelt and Wendell Willkie; he finally supported Willkie...