Word: isolationist
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...Secretaries? The speech was such a mouthful that it took a while to digest it. New York Daily News's John O'Donnell, who knows an isolationist when he sees one, cheered Wallace as a repentant arrival in the isolationist fold. The New York Times wondered how good an internationalist Mr. Wallace really was. Reaction in the foreign press ranged from perplexity and amazement to cheers from the London Daily Worker (see INTERNATIONAL...
...turnabout was partly the result of onetime La Follette supporters flocking into the Democratic primary to vote for former Representative Howard McMurray, an ardent New Dealer. They had shied away from La Follette's isolationist record, his return to Republicanism and subsequent indorsement by Ohio's conservative Taft...
...last week Harold Stassen knew that his "Paul Revere's Ride," a tested tactic from his 1938 campaign for governor, had routed an already beaten opponent. Instead of the expected close finish, popular Stassenman Ed Thye breezed in ahead of longtime (24 years) isolationist Senator Henrik Shipstead with a 3-to-2 lead. With a near-record Republican turnout, winner Thye looked like a sure bet for the Senate in the fall. His running-mate, Luther Youngdahl, was nominated for the Minnesota governor's chair by an even larger majority...
...presidential aspirant Stassen, the nugget of victory had many facets. He had come back from defeat in the Nebraska primary (TIME, June 24). He had increased his prestige enormously within the Republican party. He had proved that the voters of traditionally isolationist Minnesota were willing to listen to his pro-U.N., pro-British Loan brand of internationalism. Said he: "A decisive victory for a progressive Republican policy...
Jubilantly, progressive Republicans prepared to bury Midwestern isolationism. But most political prophets were cautious about building local results into a national, or even a sectional pattern. Last month, North Dakota voters had returned diehard isolationist Bill Langer to the Senate. And in Minnesota isolationist Congressmen had been renominated, in contests where Stassenism was not a factor. The defeat of Henrik Shipstead caused scarcely a ripple in congressional cloakrooms, changed no votes in the battle in the House over the British Loan (see The Congress...