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...should carry on a blockade of the Chinese coast and I hope our British friends will join us in that ... If any appeasement is needed, I would say that the British could make a very excellent gesture by offering Hong Kong to the Communists . . . I've been an interventionist for the last 20 years, but I think it will be very difficult to commit the U.S. to the land defense of continental Europe unless the other nations help us in the Far East...
...when "Wild Bill" Evjue was an interventionist and Communists were not, Reporter Parker publicly denounced his boss as a warmonger. Editor Evjue denounced back, and later in an open letter to the C.I.O., he called Reporter Parker "the Communist leader in Madison," added "I defy him to publicly deny it." Though Parker did not deny it. Evjue did not fire him. In 1948, he promoted him to city editor...
...Righteousness. In World War I he was an Army chaplain at Camp Upton, and long before World War II he became an interventionist. Condemning the "sentimental pacifism" of some of his colleagues, he said in 1938: "I am not for peace at any price, but rather for righteousness at any cost...
...Examine the Assumptions." "Uncle Charlie," as his Columbia students called him, was also a great ruffler of conventional thought. He resigned from Columbia in 1917 over the dismissal of two non-interventionist colleagues, though he himself was in favor of U.S. entry into World War I. The New York Times congratulated the university on its "deliverance" from such a radical. He was forever popping up-at congressional hearings, protest meetings, or with a new book-to attack Hearst, or Wall Street, the "intellectual bankruptcy of conservatism," or the internationalists and their "giddy minds." No one ever quite knew what...
...cave and interview Floyd Collins. Five Detroit Free Pressmen won the prize for reporting an American Legion parade. Ambidextrous Reuben Maury earned his Pulitzer for his "power to in fluence public opinion": a self-confessed hireling, he used to write isolationist editorials for the New York Daily News, interventionist editorials for Collier...