Word: isolationist
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...have read an article in TIME [Oct. 7] which tells us that Lolos are "fierce isolationist natives." It is rather a great shame for Christians to misunderstand a nation with a population...
...best chance to win. The Blanco (White) Party had dissidents, too, but for the moment they were united behind the presidential candidacy of tall, white-thatched Luis Alberto de Herrera, 73. Herrera, "last of the South American caudillos" ("chiefs"), had for 30 years given the Blancos their nationalistic, isolationist tone. Most of Herrera's support lay in the rocky-spined back country, where illiterates could recognize his familiar face on the illustrated ballots...
...Ridders' Staats-Zeitung, after one false start, was steadfastly anti-Hitler. (Bernard Ridder, home from a 1933 trip to Berlin, sized up Hitler as "a man of peace.") Long before World War II, the Ridder papers went interventionist, which hurt them in the isolationist Midwest...
Senators-elect had graduated from the House. The seat of Virginia's late Carter Glass went to veteran Democratic Representative A. Willis Robertson, a disciple of economy-minded Harry Flood Byrd. Idaho's conscientious, isolationist Henry Dworshak moved up a notch after four terms as a G.O.P. Congressman...
...beat New Dealing incumbent Emily Taft Douglas for Illinois Representative-at-Large. Stratton jumped into politics at 26, was elected Illinois Representative-at-Large in 1940 chiefly on the reputation of his father, ex-Illinois Secretary of State William J. Stratton. In Washington he distinguished himself as a rabid isolationist, and by letting his frank be used for the mailing of pro-German propaganda. He came back this year partly on the Republican tide, partly because Illinois Governor Dwight Green did not want him in a state...