Word: isolationist
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Harry Truman prepared to lay the whole problem of foreign relations before the U.S. people this week in a speech at Waco, Tex. The winds of history were blowing up. Not even the most economy-minded Congressman or the most isolationist plain citizen could escape their breath...
...Hatchetmen. Over the wind sounded the hoofbeats of Republican hatchetmen: New Hampshire's Styles Bridges; Nebraska's Kenneth Wherry, the Republican whip, the ex-undertaker who wants to bury the New Deal; Illinois' C. Wayland ("Curly") Brooks, the old isolationist; Maine's Owen Brewster, who is itching to investigate wartime defense contracts. They smote Lilienthal as a New Dealer, as dictatorial, as unfit for such a high position. They were not the responsible Republican leadership. But Bob Taft, who is the real and responsible G.O.P. leader, didn't say no to the hatchetmen...
...first, like many French Canadians, Rodrigue Villeneuve was a nationalist and isolationist. Yet when war came, Cardinal Villeneuve shed his isolationism, urged French Canadians, foes of conscription and overseas service, to register for the draft and to enlist. He said in 1941 : "We are legally at war and we are bound to fight. . . . You cannot fight this war by condensing the horizon to this continent...
...fact that some people laugh out loud at the thought of President Robert Taft is due, to a large degree, to Bob Taft himself. Heretofore, the nation has had only dim and somewhat prejudiced glimpses of him. In the days before Pearl Harbor he was an unpopular isolationist. He has certain rough edges, a twangy voice, and is impatient of nonsense. He is.no orator. Generally he is regarded as a cold fish, a reactionary, an enemy of Henry Wallace's Common...
...probable that if I had been an American 15 or 20 years ago I would have been an isolationist, by instinct if not by conviction. Naturally, I would have been wrong. But I would have been one just the same. It would not have seemed normal to me to have to cross an ocean and leave an invulnerable country in order to save from disaster my defaulting debtors. Little by little I would doubtless have understood that if Europe and Africa were handed over to German militarism, Asia to Japanese militarism, America would inevitably become a battlefield and that, consequently...