Word: isolationist
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...even as the House brandished the ax, a highbrowed, heavy-jowled Congressman from South Dakota was rushing to avert it. To those who best remembered him as a vociferous pre-Pearl Harbor isolationist, Karl Mundt seemed a strange rescuer. In 1939 he had suggested tartly that Americans spend more time "minding our own business instead of . . . meddling in the governments of Europe...
...fight against relaxing the Neutrality Act. He was a loyal supporter of all wartime measures after Dec. 7, 1941, but he was still an isolationist so far as postwar plans were concerned...
...speech that held the chamber spellbound, called for a postwar treaty with Great Britain and Russia to keep Germany and Japan forever disarmed. That was the day he challenged Franklin D. Roosevelt to seek not only peace but also peace with justice. That was the day the onetime isolationist assumed moral leadership of a new American internationalism...
...same time that he made this pronouncement, Monroe served notice that the U.S. had become a power with which European nations would have to reckon, and extended U.S. interest over the whole of the Western Hemisphere. One of the modern misconceptions of history is that the Monroe Doctrine was isolationist. The Monroe Doctrine was the first big step in an expanding foreign policy, which continued to expand under succeeding Presidents and Secretaries of State...
Knutson was back at his old isolationist stand. He snorted: "Maybe ... we are able to help the world because we are taking everything away from our own people and giving it to someone else." No matter what U.S. foreign commitments might be, he was determined to get a 20% cut in income taxes, arguing: "If we don't get it now, we never will...